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Message:: [QUOTE="andyscouse, post: 986145, member: 27100"]Well, it's just another coin to add to a collection, for it was only on the dates I listed that pennies had mintmarks.  Apart from these, and sovereigns, for the most part modern UK coinage doesn't have mintmarks.  Of course, if the point is one coin for each monarch, then mintmark wouldn't matter.  In my collection, I have ignored mintmark coins, as they're way too expensive in EF or finer (some over $1,000).   For the 18xx coins, there is a small "H" under the date in exergue.  For the 19xx coins, the "H" or "KN" is to the very left of the date, just under the exergue line itself.  Apart from that, the basic design is the very same. I know that when collecting sovereigns, one could do it by year only, or one per monarch, but one way that some people do it is to get one of each of the 7 mintmarks available (none = London, S=Sydney, M=Melbourne, P=Perth, I=Bombay (India), C=Ottawa (Canada), SA=South Africa). At the end of the day, it's what each wants to make of it.[/QUOTE]