Expert: Jim Lawniczak - 12/20/2005

Question
Hi, I have a friend that has a coin that has a D on one side and says Uncirculated on the top and Denver on the bottom. Then on the other it says Treasury on the top and United States Mint on the bottom with  what I assume is the U.S. Mint logo in the middle. What is this coin?  Thanks

Answer
Hello, Anthony, I tried to answer this question yesterday, but I don't think the all experts website was working and I don't think my answer went out.  If it did, now you'll get two answers.  I believe that what you are describing is simply a piece of metal that the mint put into fairly recent mint sets to indicate: 1. that they were uncirculated sets; and 2. to show where they were minted (with the D for Denver).  I think you can see the item in its original container if you go to www.ebay.com and do a search for mint set or something similar and see what comes up and then take a look at some recent pictures of mint sets.  Hope this helps, Jim Lawniczak

Hello, just tried the eBay search myself to see what came up -- lots, maybe too much.  Try 1990 mint set.  One of the first entries I checked showed the "P" metal that was included with the set.  Jim