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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 503250, member: 11521&quot;]There was no need for mintmarks when the US had only one Mint in Philadelphia. Every coin made was minted at the Philly Mint then. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When the Branch Mints opened in 1838 in Charlotte, Dahlonega and New Orleans they each added their mintmarks to the coins they minted. Other mints (San Francisco, Carson City, Denver, West Point) used their minrmarks as they came on board. Philadelphia did not use a mintmark because it was the main mint and the absense of a mintmark indicated a coin was minted in Philadelphia. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That has all changed now and even Philadelphia uses a mintmark. I liked things as they were. I see no reason for coins minted in Philadelphia to carry a mintmark. But that genie is out of the bottle now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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