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<p>[QUOTE="Dima, post: 24609394, member: 18037"]I've always found coins coming out of West Point to be quite fascinating, starting with the 1996-W Roosevelt dime. While West Point has produced countless beautiful commemorative coins and continues to supply American Eagle bullion coins, I've always been exceptionally drawn to the occasional circulation-type coin they've minted. </p><p><br /></p><p>I've compiled what I believe to be a complete, small set of all the circulation-design (ie. non-commemorative, non-bullion) coins coming out of West Point. That's not to say these were ever meant for circulation - outside the 2019-2020 quarters, these have only been included in collector sets - however, the <i>designs</i> themselves are what I consider circulation designs.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564081[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Most recently of course, I, like many folks, have been interested in the 2019-2020 West Point quarters. I've put together two Set Registry entries for these --</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564079[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I was hoping to see a 2020-W business strike nickel and the 2021-W Tuskegee quarter, but unfortunately covid-19 prevented that from happening.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to 2019, West Point famously did strike circulation Washington quarters in the 1970s and 1980s; however, these were intentionally indistinguishable from Philadelphia ones. I've always thought that TPGs would have a field day if an official West Point mint bag of quarters was discovered buried in the back of a bank vault.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dima, post: 24609394, member: 18037"]I've always found coins coming out of West Point to be quite fascinating, starting with the 1996-W Roosevelt dime. While West Point has produced countless beautiful commemorative coins and continues to supply American Eagle bullion coins, I've always been exceptionally drawn to the occasional circulation-type coin they've minted. I've compiled what I believe to be a complete, small set of all the circulation-design (ie. non-commemorative, non-bullion) coins coming out of West Point. That's not to say these were ever meant for circulation - outside the 2019-2020 quarters, these have only been included in collector sets - however, the [I]designs[/I] themselves are what I consider circulation designs. [ATTACH=full]1564081[/ATTACH] Most recently of course, I, like many folks, have been interested in the 2019-2020 West Point quarters. I've put together two Set Registry entries for these -- [ATTACH=full]1564079[/ATTACH] I was hoping to see a 2020-W business strike nickel and the 2021-W Tuskegee quarter, but unfortunately covid-19 prevented that from happening. Prior to 2019, West Point famously did strike circulation Washington quarters in the 1970s and 1980s; however, these were intentionally indistinguishable from Philadelphia ones. I've always thought that TPGs would have a field day if an official West Point mint bag of quarters was discovered buried in the back of a bank vault.[/QUOTE]
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