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Why did New Orleans change the mint mark in 1880?

Ds6960Ds6960 Posts: 1 ✭
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Is there a story to be told? Is it writen in the history books? Surely this was done for a reason.

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  • CryptoCrypto Posts: 3,738 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What do you mean? I collect New Orleans golds and I am not tracking a change. They re opened after “closing” in the civil war in 1879 and maybe the fonts varied a bit but no more than any other mint during the period.

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  • ZoidMeisterZoidMeister Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • ZoidMeisterZoidMeister Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Denver Mint opened three years before New Orleans closed.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mintmark punches break and wear out and then need to be replaced.

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  • LukeMarshallLukeMarshall Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool NOLA token, @ZoidMeister what’s the story there?

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  • ZoidMeisterZoidMeister Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @LukeMarshall said:
    Cool NOLA token, @ZoidMeister what’s the story there?

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    Here you go . . . . .

    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1067729/1962-u-s-mint-medal-series-by-coin-world#latest

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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,494 ✭✭✭✭✭

    New Orleans had nothing to do with the mintmark.

    The mintmark for branch mint coins at the time were all applied at the main mint in Philadelphia, the dies were then shipped to the branch mints.

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I recall the 1880-O Morgan has a very small, round mint mark.

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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @asheland said:
    I recall the 1880-O Morgan has a very small, round mint mark.

    You mean smaller/rounder than the other years? Because an 'o' mintmark is by definition going to be very small and round... :wink:

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  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    Mintmark punches break and wear out and then need to be replaced.

    +1

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :p

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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,632 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mintmarks changed all the time. Some Liberty Seated issues have small and large mintmarks even in the same year.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Ds6960.... Welcome aboard. Are you referring to the 'micro o'? It would help if you explained a bit more. Cheers, RickO

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