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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 614209, member: 4552&quot;]Remember that the actual salaries of the Mint Employees is not from the money they produce but from your tax dollars. So to make sure they earn the money we pay them we make them put info on the coins to see just what they are producing. The dates tell us how much they work per year and at which Mint. Some Mint workers don&#039;t want you to know this so they leave thier place of work off the coins but we all know they are in Philidelphia anyway. Another reason for the dates and Mint marks and also the initials of the designer is with out this info there would be all that empty space on our coins and the next thing would be companies like McDonalds would be placing advertisements there. Studies were made by Politians a long time ago about where to place the Mint marks. None of them knew about the reverses on coins so they made the Mint start putting those markings on the Front. </p><p>Another item has already been noted also. Many companies like Dansco, Whitman, Littleton, etc have been producing Albums and folders with spaces for coins with different dates and Mint marks. If there was none on the coins, what would you put in all those places????????[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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