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RobertLahti
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Not even Wikipedia could find this for its lincoln cent mintages page.
We'll see...WHAT? What brought your attention...?
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Because they didn't have a mint mark they went into the mintage for the P.
West Point produced pennies from 1973 to 1986 to reduce production pressure on the other facilities.
@RobertLahti Are there pups for this 1981 run? Peace Roy
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Those cents vanished into the billions of P cents issued. Cheers, RickO
Were they struck with an 81 or an 82?
They were dated 1982. On several occasions, the West Point mint has made Lincoln cents without putting a 'W' mintmark, just adding the mintage to the Philadelphia mintage. This was done before any coins had a 'W' mintmark, I believe as far back as the '70s.
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I figured that since eBay was not flush with zinc 1981’s.
Were the 1973 West Point strikes made early, in late 1972, for early distribution in 1973?
Interesting story. in 1972-73 I was working for a fruit juice company in Detroit where the drivers delivered to both homes and restaurants and bars. My Dad was one of the drivers. I worked in the checkout room where the drivers figured out their sales for the day and made up a deposit of cash, checks, food stamps and coins. The also gave me their orders for the next day which I processed.
Of course I looked through the coins and paper money. On January 6 of 1973 I spotted a shiny new 1973 cent, so I just swapped it for one in my pocket. That was the earliest I had ever gotten a coin of a new year. Later during a lull I looked at it and noticed that the designer's initials on the reverse, FG, were twice the size of the previous year. I thought that might be worth a paragraph or two in Coin World, so when I got home that night I wrote a brief note to Ed Fleischmann at Collectors Clearinghouse, stuck it in an envelope and mailed it the next day. Figured it was no big deal because they would all be like that.
Well, it got there on a slow news week and the hub change story took up the entire front page. I already had an application to work there on file, and when Coin World decided later that year to hire a proof reader who knew something about coins Margo looked through the applications on file and remembered my name from the cent story. I had been corresponding with Fleischmann for years and had given him as a reference, so he vouched for me and I got the job. Six months later the Senior Editor of Clearinghouse retired, Ed got his job and I moved into Clearinghouse as his Assistant Editor. Two years later he went to ANACS and I took over his job at age 26. Two years after that I followed him to ANACS.
All because of a 1973 cent that got into circulation very early in the year.