perched, and will either carry the mint mark " D " for the Denver Mint, " S " for the San Francisco mint, or be blank if minted at the Philadelphia Mint.

Until 2012 the " S " mint mark was used only on proof coins, but beginning with the El Yunque ( Puerto Rico ) design in the America the Beautiful Quarters program, the U. S. Mint began selling ( at a premium ) uncirculated 40-coin rolls and 100-coin bags of quarters with the San Francisco mint mark.

* Underneath the effigy, the signature mark of the Master of the Mint is displayed on the left and the mint mark on the right, either side of the year.

Finnish euro coins dated 1999 – 2006 carry the mint mark M which is the initial of the mint master at The Mint of Finland, Raimo Makkonen.

* CC, mint mark of Carson City Mint, a branch of the United States mint

Uniquely amongst modern British coinage, the £ 1 coin has a mint mark: a small crosslet found on the milled edge that represents Llantrisant in South Wales, where the Royal Mint has been based since 1968.

The obverse shows a left-facing bust of the queen, with a rose behind her and the legend -- Elizabeth, by the grace of God a rose without a thorn — while the reverse shows the royal arms with the date above the arms and a mint mark at the beginning of the legend reading -- City of London, the Tower Mint.

* Pobjoy Mint, a European mint, via its mint mark PM

Coins produced at the Dahlonega Mint bear the " D " mint mark.

That mint mark is used today by the Denver Mint, which opened many years after the Dahlonega Mint closed.

The New Orleans Mint ( O mint mark ) closed at the beginning of the Civil War ( 1861 ) and did not re-open until the end of Reconstruction in 1879.

Like the Charlotte and Dahlonega branches, the Carson City Mint ( CC mint mark ) was opened to take advantage of local precious metal deposits, in this case, a large vein of silver.

They differ from all other Bicentennial coins in that they were struck in silver proof without mint mark ; other silver proof coins bear an " S " mint mark as struck at the San Francisco Assay Office ( as the San Francisco Mint was then known ).

On March 8, 2007, the United States Mint announced that, on February 15, 2007, an unknown number of George Washington Presidential $ 1 Coins were released into circulation without their edge inscriptions ( the U. S. mottoes, " In God we trust " and " E pluribus unum ", the coin's mint mark, and its year of issuance ; i. e. ( where X is either P or D ).

In 2011, the Austrian Mint issued silver coins to mark his science expeditions to the Caribbean.

All Canadian coins ( including five-cent coins ) were struck in England at the Royal Mint ( no mint mark ) and the Birmingham Mint ( H mint mark ) until 1908, when the Ottawa branch of the Royal Mint opened.

The surviving 1933 pennies are to be found in the Mint Museum, the British Museum, the University of London, three in private collections and one which was stolen-see list below.

His work is included in several museum collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Mint Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Kansas City Art Institute, and the Yellowstone Museum Art Center.

Many sets were purchased by coin dealers, others by Mint officials as gifts.

Many coins in the " Mercury " series exhibit striking defects, most notably the fact that the line separating the two horizontal bands in the center of the fasces is often missing, in whole or in part ; the 1945 issue of the Philadelphia Mint hardly ever appears with this line complete from left to right, and as a result, such coins ( designated as " FSB " for " full split bands ") are worth more than usual for uncirculated specimens.

Many of the coins in circulation have been struck at the Royal Canadian Mint.

Many interesting characters served at the Mint during the early years of operation.

Peter Urquidi, " Man of Many Sounds ", played the Top of the Mint in the " Sky Room " for more than a decade until the early 70's.

The Royal Mint stated these coins were still legal tender, although due to their rarity they are traded above face value by collectors.

* Mint in Package ; a collectors ' abbreviation ; see Mint condition

Starting in 1992, the U. S. Mint reintroduced silver coins in its annual collectors sets.

In addition to the bullion version, the United States Mint has produced a proof version and an uncirculated version for coin collectors.

However, unknown to the Mint, a number of the coins ( 20 have been recovered so far ) were stolen, possibly by the U. S. Mint Cashier, and found their way via Philadelphia jeweler Israel Switt, into the hands of collectors.

The only Eisenhower dollars to actually contain silver came from special collectors ' issues struck at the San Francisco Mint in a silver-copper composition, the same as the 1965-70 Kennedy half dollar.

The only Ikes available to collectors from the Mint with these dates were the silver clad uncirculated and proof issues.

Debt collectors ( known as " duns ") would stand along the main roads out of the Mint and wait for any suspected debtor.

Should the coin not catch on with the general public, the Mint is hoping that collectors will be as interested in the dollars as they were with the State Quarters, which generated about $ 4. 6 billion in seigniorage between January 1999 and April 2005, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.

Among the rarest coins in the U. S. Philippines series from the collectors ' standpoint are the 1906-S One Peso, the 1916-S Five Centavos, the 1918-S Five Centavo Mule, the 1903-S Twenty Centavos ( especially in Mint State ) and the 1915-S One Centavo.

In addition to the bullion version, the United States Mint has produced a proof version and an uncirculated version for coin collectors.

The anthemion is also the mint mark of the Mint of Greece, and it shows in all Greek euro coins destined for circulation, as well as in all Greek collectors ' coins.

Today, the Mint continues to provide refining and other services to the gold industry and manufactures many coin related numismatic items for investors and coin collectors.

While some consider the blackening an undesired quality, the Mint suggests the uneven tarnishing effect gives the coins an " antique finish " that " accentuate the profile and add a dimension of depth to the depiction of Sacagawea and her child ".

As of August 2005, the Mint has announced that it would consider saving the coins for display, though as of December 2007, no formal statement has since been made.

Some numismatists consider the denomination to be the first coin minted by the United States Mint under the Coinage Act of 1792, with production beginning on or about July 1792.

The Mint was hit on several different occasions and was put out of commission for three weeks at one point.

Over the years the Mint had used different processes to recover and sell the silver often found in unrefined gold, but, in 2006, the Mint opened a new, state-of-the-art silver refinery that finally allowed it to refine silver.

Then it was performed for " Mint Jams " in a different arrangement.

" ( Mint, 7-inch, 5 different covers )

On March 20, this plan was halted when some Congressmen questioned the authority of Mint officials to strike the coins in a different composition than what had already been authorized.

The mint used at Olive Garden is a special flavor manufactured exclusively for the restaurant chain, but it is tastewise similar to the Mint Parfait flavor ; containing the same layers, but at different ratios.

During the reign of Peter the Great, the Russians established the Saint Petersburg Mint in 1724, which would centralize coinage in Russia and begin to produce different kinds of badges and medals used for decoration.