Can you name the US Mints based upon their Mint Marks?

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US Mint Marks Quiz

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Created by: SonOfSibir -
Contributed: October 14th, 2009
Published: January 25th, 2012
Category: Geography
Plays: 6,675

Tags: operation, upon, mint, US Mints, Mint Marks, mark, based

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	mcsheffrey:	Jan 25th, 2012 at 15:40 GMT	16 points
	Stopped operating in 1861...I wonder if that might be significant?

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	Ulkomaalainen:	Jan 25th, 2012 at 17:01 GMT	7 points
	Probably the same as a UK mint, only in the US - so, a place where coins are minted for the central bank. (Actually, the mint marks did help - they wouldn't over here. In case you're wondering, "J" is "Hamburg" - no idea why.)

	Bob91351:	Jan 25th, 2012 at 17:06 GMT	1 point
	thank you for the three minutes, since it took me almost 2 to get the right spelling on that darned first D

	jhc1415:	Jan 25th, 2012 at 18:35 GMT	-3 points
	@mcsheffrey my guess would be the start of the civil war.

	MasterNachosII:	Jan 25th, 2012 at 19:30 GMT	6 points
	I would not have gotten 'D' in a million years. I probably won't even get it next time.

	monstro:	Jan 25th, 2012 at 19:53 GMT	9 points
	Interesting: Dahlonega, San Francisco, and Carson City were all started shortly after strikes of gold, gold, and silver, respectively. Totally makes sense, and yet it didn't occur to me at all. (The others may have been started for proximity to various metals, but I'm not familiar enough with their histories to know.)

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	gagan:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 00:57 GMT	-4 points
	@mcsheffrey Which one stopped operating in 1861?

	kellkris:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 23:30 GMT	2 points
	New Orleans should have been NO.

	FormerBronxnite:	Jan 27th, 2012 at 12:02 GMT	-1 points
	To Kellkris... "NO" is not a mint mark. While the city is named New Orleans, the "O" mint marked letter is shown on coins made at the New Orleans mint.

	GeoKid3:	Jan 27th, 2012 at 21:04 GMT	-1 points
	Got them all with 1 minute, 30 seconds left! Too much time. You should make it 2 minutes or something.