New coin collectors and those outside of the hobby seem to have all kinds of ideas about coins that either aren’t true.
Of course, that’s often the case when people are unfamiliar with something.
I was reading Numismaster, which is an online coin periodical, and came across this article in which an editor who wrote the piece talks about a person who thinks all proof coins are silver coins — and that the ‘s’ mint mark on copper-nickel clad proof coins is there to make unsuspecting buyers think they’re purchasing silver coins.
Wow! Of course, that’s not true.
The ‘s’ mint mark on U.S. coins simply denotes the coin has been made at the San Francisco mint.
And not all proof coins are silver.
That story just goes to show how extreme some of those urban myths can be!
