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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 493437, member: 66&quot;]Part of the problem is they way the reference books have listed the Philadelphia coins over the years.&nbsp; Back before 1979 when they had no mintmarks standard procedure was to list the philadelphia coins with just the date.&nbsp; After 1979 it becomes confusing because some refernece will now list the Philadelphia coins as P even if they don&#039;t have a mintmark, some continued with the old format and don&#039;t list the mintmark even though they do have it and some use a mixed format with just the date for those that have no mintmark and with a P for those that do.&nbsp; It&#039;s all a matter of what the publisher of the reference decides.&nbsp; (And sometimes they are not consistant listing some issues one way and some another.)&nbsp; So you have to check the reference carefully to see what format they are using.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>West Point DID make cents without a mintmark (as did San Francisco) but they have not made any cents since 1986.&nbsp; West point now just strikes all the precious metal coinage except S mint coins for the silver proof set.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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