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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2591897, member: 66&quot;]Not since 1986 for W and 1983 for S.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea why the decided to start adding the P mintmark to the coins in 1980 but I can think of a few possiblities why they didn&#039;t add it to the cent.&nbsp; One would be tradition but I don&#039;t find that as being a likely reason until after 1990.&nbsp; A second and much more likely possibility was the fact that West Point and San Francisco were still striking cents but if they could strike them with no mintmark why couldn&#039;t they strike them with P mintmarks?&nbsp; And the third reason was that at that time the mintmarks were still being punched into the dies by hand.&nbsp; Adding the mintmark to the cent would have meant another 5,000 to 6,000 dies they would have had to hand punch ech year.&nbsp; (Doing the D mintmarks was bad enough.)&nbsp; After 1990 when all the mintmarks were on the master hub, the only reason left would be tradition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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