Coin Trivia

[THE PILGRIM]

Just the other day I was handed a Quarter. Did you ever see one of these?
Took a look, strange! It’s got a W Mint Mark!
I just looked through my coin Cache, I don’t have any.
W is of course West Point, kind of the Wild Card US Mint and Gold depository.
Do you have any of those W Quarters? I don’t!
West Point Mint - Wikipedia

 

[Breakaway500]

On April 2, 2019 the United States Mint announced that 10 million quarters would be placed into circulation containing the "W" mint mark in an effort to promote the hobby of coin collecting. Although quarters had been produced at the West Point Mint before, none of them included the "W" mint mark. These quarters are a part of the "America the Beautiful" quarters program; 2 million of each of the five national park quarters released in 2019 were scheduled to contain the "W" mint mark.

 

[jeffrefrig]

I never heard of a W mintmark, but I suppose I'll be looking now. All the different state designs on the quarters are interesting. Little works of art.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Mom's family is from NOLA, I remember for birthdays getting Seated Liberty Half dollars with the "O" mint mark. I wish I had them now!

Ivan

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Ain’t got no Charlotte or Dahlonega. Or W.
Got a couple of O’s and several CC’s. Morgan Silver Dollars.
Love them Bo Dollars!
C: Charlotte (Gold only, 1838-1861)
CC: Carson City (1870-1893)
D: Dahlonega, Georgia (Gold only, 1838-1861)
D: Denver (1906 to date; easily distinguishable from Dahlonega because of the different timeframes in which the mints operated)
O: New Orleans (1838-1909)
P: Philadelphia (Silver "Nickels" 1942-45; Dollar coins 1979 to date; other coins except cents 1980 to date. Although the Philadelphia mint has been operating continuously since 1793, most Philadelphia coins do not have a mintmark)
S: San Francisco (1854 to date. Now mints collector coins only. The last circulating coin to bear an 'S' mintmark was the 1980-S SBA Dollar)
W: West Point (1983 to date; collector coins only)

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Thanks for the list and time frames.

Ivan

 

[TX-Dennis]

The W mint mark is usually used only on gold coins, silver coins, and commemorative coins, so the quarters is the first time most people have seen it.

 

[wood714]

Well the thread is titled Coin Trivia. I got this thing in change today. Too lazy to get my camera out, so a crappy cell pic is what I took.

I thought it was a quarter. Anyone ever see one?

 

[Old 44 Guy]

While metal detecting I have found many coins. Best quarter was a 1854 P in VG condition, Gave it to my grandson.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Repost. My USA Filipino Peso. Notice it was minted in San Francisco.

 

[BigBoy99]

More coin trivia.

A study was made and discovered that the one dollar paper bill had a lifetime of 6.6 years while metal coins had a a life expectancy of 30 years. The Treasury decided to mint dollar coins instead of printing paper dollars. With previous minting of coins, the larger the value the increased diameter. This was changed and do you know why when the dollar coins came out recently, they were the size of quarters?

The manufacturers of coin vending machine bought off enough Congressmen to ensure the dollar coins were the size of quarters. That way they wouldn't have to redesign and rebuild all of the coin vending machines to handle a larger size dollar coin. This smaller coin size meant they could continue to use existing coin vending mechanisms in all of the coin operated vending machines, saving them millions of dollars.

A dollar coin the same size a s a quarter was the main reason the public rejected the new dollar coins and they lost interest in using them

 

[wood714]

Cash trivia.


Most banknotes have traces of cocaine on them; this has been confirmed by studies done in several countries. In 1994, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that in Los Angeles, out of every four banknotes, on average more than three are tainted by cocaine or another illicit drug.

Plus they've been up someone's nose.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Cash trivia.


Most banknotes have traces of cocaine on them; this has been confirmed by studies done in several countries. In 1994, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that in Los Angeles, out of every four banknotes, on average more than three are tainted by cocaine or another illicit drug.

Plus they've been up someone's nose.

You also have to put them in the cash register with the curls down with the spring holder to help flatten them out. I would band stacks of bills for deposit and they looked like canoes.

 

[johngalt]

Cash trivia.


Most banknotes have traces of cocaine on them; this has been confirmed by studies done in several countries. In 1994, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that in Los Angeles, out of every four banknotes, on average more than three are tainted by cocaine or another illicit drug.

Plus they've been up someone's nose.

I used to hear that it was more like 90%