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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 2591706, member: 5233&quot;]Probably a question that is easily answered...but I don&#039;t know the answer so I thought I would ask.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Philadelphia Mint is the original mint...which is why I assume that coins minted there were not marked with a &#039;P&#039; until recently.&nbsp; All the other mints are branch mints...and the mint marks were put on coins to distinguish coins produced at the branch mints.&nbsp; This is how it was for a long time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why then, beginning in 1980 did they decided to start putting a &#039;P&#039; on the coins minted in Philadelphia?&nbsp; Why change it after all that time?&nbsp; There must have been a reason for it.&nbsp; Does anyone know why?</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to that...why was the Lincoln Cent spared from having a &#039;P.&#039;&nbsp; To this day Philadelphia minted Lincoln Cents don&#039;t have a mint mark.&nbsp; Is this partially due to the fact that from 1974-1986 un-marked cents were also minted at the West Point Mint and by adding a &#039;P&#039; they would have also had to add a &#039;W&#039; if they wanted to be completely accurate?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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