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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 617579, member: 66&quot;]The 1838-O half was the first, it was released before the gold coins were.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was the first MM which is probably also why they only did it for those first two years.&nbsp; They wanted the mintmark, tried it on the obv, decided they didn&#039;t like it and moved it to the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no clue why they did it on the obverse of the walkers.&nbsp; Speculation, the area under IGWT is roughly the same size and shape as that below the date on the cent and they tried it for consistancy?</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there is the question as to why they moved them to the obv in 1968?&nbsp; To indicate the composition change?&nbsp; (The mint has always been big on putting something on the coins to indicate a composition change.)&nbsp; Of course that only worked on the Denver coins since Philadelphia didn&#039;t use a mintmark.&nbsp; Also there was no change on the five cent piece but the mintmarks moved to the obv there as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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