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Message:: [QUOTE="J.P., post: 1777112, member: 56894"]Hi, the US mint should  know if the designers styled the small  "of" on the reverse, or if the engraver changed the dies from the first three capitol "OF" issues, but they won't say??  I remember in 1959, I started to collect "New shinny coins".  The Cleveland Plain dealer, or Cleveland NEWS, printed an article That the Fed's told banks not to issue any more 59 pennies. The change to the small "of" from the last 50 years was a mistake and they printed them the same, until 50 more years in 2009?? . Because so many 1959's were out it was too expensive to change dies and never recalled them. They decided to flood the market with million and millions more. NOTE: For many years the 59, in circulation, has become very scarce, or not found?  Also they slowly became high in value and found only in BU rolls?? I could use more validation than just "Say so". Thanks for you input and I do know where the "P" is from, but why was the proof not made in "S" ?? and the cents were, as usual???  J.P.[/QUOTE]