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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rld14, post: 517740, member: 16133&quot;]Thomas,</p><p><br /></p><p>If&nbsp; a Lincoln cent has no mint mark it was almost certainly made in Philadelphia.&nbsp; The reason is, the US Mint is located in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver are Branch Mints, hence the mint marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>A &quot;D&quot; under the date means the coin was minted at the branch mint in Denver Colorado.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A &quot;S&quot; under the date means the coin was minted at the branch mint in San Francisco, California.</p><p><br /></p><p>After 1955 the only Lincolns minted in San Francisco were proofs.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two exceptions to this rule, in 1922 no cents were struck in Philadelphia, however a small number exist without a mint mark, these are Denver cents where the mint mark was polished off of the dies, these are very valuable coins.&nbsp; Also the mint in West Point, New York (Which normally coins gold and silver bullion coins and commemoratives) made quite a few under contract for the Philadelphia mint in recent years.&nbsp; The West Point cents are indistinguishable from Philadelphia cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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