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How would you feel if the U.S. Mint discontinued mintmarks on U.S. coinage? Do you think it ever will?

Searching for coins by date and mint-mark is one of the most exciting parts of numismatics for so many people. The stories over the years of collectors like Q. David Bowers, who says he started his collecting looking for the rare 1909-S VDB and 1914-D cents, and the modern hunt for the 2019 and 2020-W quarters is still one of the first ways that new collectors start out in numismatics. The Mint already has eliminated mintmarks (1965-1967) and eventually restored them in

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