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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 341044, member: 66&quot;]The mintmark was punched into each working die by hand, then each working die struck somewhere between 750K and 1 million cents&nbsp; So for every billion cents struck they had to hand punch roughly 1,000 dies.&nbsp; That means for example in 1989 they hand punched around 5,345 cent dies for Denver.&nbsp; Is it any wonder they didn&#039;t decide to use a P on the cents when they added it to the rest of the coin in 1980? That would have meant another 7,000 + dies that would have had to have been stamped with the P.&nbsp; It also explains why they added the mintmark to the models.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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