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Interesting mint mark information
richbeat
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I was going through Allen/Wexler's "Lincoln Cent Mint Mark Varieties" to post on another thread, and I came across this interesting bit of information concerning the Lincoln cents that have "ghost" mint marks. I thought I'd pass it along for anyone who's interested, or who does not know:
"An interesting footnote to the whole story (of the 1997 and 1998 "ghost" mint mark cents) is that these will not likely occur again. The Mint has reported that they will no longer produce Philadelphia master dies for cents by grinding the D off of the Denver master hub. They will either produce separate galvanos for each Mint or they will produce a single galvano for circulation strike cents without a Mint mark. In this case they would have to go back to punching the D Mint mark into the Denver master die just as they now (as of 1999) do for other denominations and just as they did for the Lincoln cent until recently."
This info makes me wonder. I haven't heard of or seen any RPM's since 1989. Does this mean that the Mint opted to use separate galvanos? Would anyone happen to know?
"An interesting footnote to the whole story (of the 1997 and 1998 "ghost" mint mark cents) is that these will not likely occur again. The Mint has reported that they will no longer produce Philadelphia master dies for cents by grinding the D off of the Denver master hub. They will either produce separate galvanos for each Mint or they will produce a single galvano for circulation strike cents without a Mint mark. In this case they would have to go back to punching the D Mint mark into the Denver master die just as they now (as of 1999) do for other denominations and just as they did for the Lincoln cent until recently."
This info makes me wonder. I haven't heard of or seen any RPM's since 1989. Does this mean that the Mint opted to use separate galvanos? Would anyone happen to know?
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