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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26594798, member: 4626&quot;]I recall they initially released them, not telling anyone about them beforehand... and it resulted in a large volume of calls from people wondering if they were an error, or counterfeit lol.&nbsp; Eventually they did put out a press release to let people know they did it on purpose (for the sake of marking the 225th anniversary of the Philadelphia Mint).</p><p><br /></p><p>They&#039;re not particularly rare... they minted about 3.6 billion of them (according to Red Book, but no reason to doubt this figure, but I&#039;ve seen a lot of people thinking it was more than this).&nbsp; But you don&#039;t see them often I suppose, and with the discontinuation of the penny assembling them in quantity is bound to be worth something.</p><p><br /></p><p>Starting in 1980 Philadelphia put the &quot;P&quot; mintmark on all the coins they minted, the cent being the exception... 2017-P is the one exception to the exception lol.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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