Week # 138 - Hope you all have your thinking caps on...

[Danielle C.]

QUESTION:

 

Why did the U.S. Mint have San Francisco coin cents and nickels beginning in 1968 when the other denominations made there were proof-only?

 

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[Hoot]

There was a shortage of cents and nickels in the wester U.S.

 

Besides, I asked them to.

 

Hoot

[Gallagher]

just a wild guess, because more cents and nickels were needed for circulation.

Gallagher

[Narmuriel]

Shot in the dark....in 1968, 69, and 70, there were no Nickels or cents minted in Philly. The San Francisco mint, which had just reopened, minted nickels and cents to make up for Philly's share.

[truthteller]

To fulfill obligations for mint sets.

 

 

 

TRUTH

[Danielle C.]

QUESTION:

 

Why did the U.S. Mint have San Francisco coin cents and nickels beginning in 1968 when the other denominations made there were proof-only?

 

ANSWER:

 

It believed that making cents and nickels for circulation would discourage unwanted speculation in the proof sets.

 

 

 

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