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First Mint marks appear on a variety of U.S. coins - Coin World

Here’s a numismatic trivia question. What is the common link with the following coins – the Wartime 5-cent coins, Seated Liberty dime and dollar, Coronet gold eagle and double eagle, Classic Head half eagle, a commemorative coin and a centavo?

Need another clue? Or was that too easy? The correct answer is that a coin among each type listed was the first United States coin to bear the Mint mark of one of the nine U.S. Mints or Branch Mints.

Read article: First Mint marks appear on a variety of U.S. coins - Coin World

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