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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy29, post: 18857, member: 1113&quot;]No, you&#039;re correct -- the 1974 San Francisco cents were the last regular issue, business strike coins struck at that mint.&nbsp; After that they were essentially a proof-only operation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Living only an hour from the San Francisco Mint growing up, I remember the frenzy in the middle of that year about 1974-S cents.&nbsp; The rumor was apparently that they were making very few of them -- or production was suddenly stopping early in the year, not just stopping before 1975 -- and quite a few people started hoarding all the &#039;74-S cents they could find.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t even nine years old when the mania hit, and I remember searching my change religiously for a &#039;74-S.</p><p><br /></p><p>Turns out that it was a fairly typical year for production as far as S-mint cents went to that time (something over 400 million pieces, I think).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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