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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Phil Ham, post: 1128542, member: 5787&quot;]I&#039;ve just completed reading the book, History of the United States Mint and it&#039;s Coinage, by David W. Lange.&nbsp; It is a pretty good book that discuss all the US coins as well as the history of each U.S. mint including the only one outside the U.S.&nbsp; The San Francisco mint had many starts and stops on its history from its approval for construction in 1852 until today.&nbsp; The massive shortage of coins in the early 1960&#039;s caught the mint totally off guard.&nbsp; They began to mint punching blanks in 1964 and sent them to the Denver mint.&nbsp; In 1965, the introduction of the nickel-clad coins caused additional issues for the U.S. mint.&nbsp; To prevent hoarding of the ever popular San Francisco mint, that mint made coins without a mint mark so that they were indistinguishable from the Philidelphia mint.&nbsp; In 1968, the S mintmark was restored for only the cents and the nickels.&nbsp; Hoarding of these coins led to the removal of the S mint mark in 1975.&nbsp; Only in 1979 and 1981 were the S mint marks used in circulation coins and only on the SBA&#039;s.&nbsp; Up until 1983, S-less cents were struck in San Francisco to meet demand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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