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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 25624116, member: 4626&quot;]Love that collection.&nbsp; The 2017-P cent always amused me because the Mint never told anyone before the fact it was going to be released.&nbsp; When it showed up they got hundreds of calls asking if it was counterfeit or an error lol.&nbsp; Eventually they put out a press release telling people yes it was real, yes we put it there on purpose so it&#039;s not an error.&nbsp; It&#039;s not hugely valuable; they minted over 4 billion of them, but it&#039;s interesting as the first, and to date the only, time they put a P mintmark on a cent.&nbsp; And a Lincoln cent collection isn&#039;t really complete without one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Short history of the P mintmark:</p><p>1942-1945 they put it on the reverse of the silver war nickels, to distinguish them from the standard copper/nickel alloy.</p><p>1979 they put them on Philadelphia-minted Susan B. Anthony dollars.</p><p>1980 they started putting them on every coin they minted, except for cents.</p><p>2017: The exception to the exception, they put them on cents that year only to mark the 225th anniversary of the Philadelphia Mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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