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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3291840, member: 68&quot;]Back in the day I thought the type &quot;d&quot; reverse quarters were made exclusively at West Point but this is obviously not the case for a few reasons, not the least of which is these continued right up through 1984. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking for a way to distinguish these coins but I never found it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Dies are normally destroyed at the end of the year so it&#039;s unlikely any survive.&nbsp; The best bet is to find a bag identified as being W mint and finding easily recognized varieties but this is very improbable since there aren&#039;t many easily recognized varieties.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve never seen a W bag and they might have been shipped in Philly bags.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The mint knows that collectors (public) will hoard any &quot;low mintage&quot; issue so seeing 15,000,000 W quarters would just get them removed. I believe the primary reason for the mintage was to ease the burden on the mint of the bicentennial coins and special sets.&nbsp;&nbsp; After 1976 they just figured it was good work for the slack capacity at West Point so continued minting coins there.&nbsp; Pennies were a more &quot;natural&quot; way to use this capacity.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is more likely to be a means of identifying the cents from West Point but even this is unlikely at this late date.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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