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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 1180031, member: 15445&quot;]Good point about the last year of a coin type &amp; the large number of collectors at the turn of the Century.&nbsp; The USA also had a decent number of coin collectors by the turn of the Century.&nbsp; However, I believe that most collectors in the USA were not tuned-in to collecting dates by mint marks.&nbsp; I wasn’t there personally in the early 1900s but I understand that getting one coin per year was the fad.&nbsp; The last year the Liberty nickel was officially struck was 1912 so many people probably hoarded the 1911 &amp; 12.&nbsp; The branch mints had never struck nickels prior to 1912.&nbsp; Therefore, most people didn’t even know that 1912-D and 1912-S nickels existed.&nbsp; This is one of the reasons that 1912-D and 1912-S nickels are difficult to find in high grades today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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