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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 76935, member: 669&quot;]Hi Polly, and&nbsp; <img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; to the forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m going to base a wild guess on your concern about mint marks, that you are talking about a U.S. cent, not a British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African, or other penny. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m going to take another wild guess that you are less then 30 years old, and don&#039;t remember that except for WW II silver nickles, the primary U.S. Mint facility in Philadelpha has only been mint marking its coins for about 20 years or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m going to take a final guess that you live closer to the Pacific than to the Atlantic, and generally see coins from the Denver Mint, or older cons from San Francisco before they limited their output to proofs; so you didn&#039;t notice that Philadelphia cents still have no mint marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, how did I do Dr. Watson? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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