Uncle Joe's Mint Balls usually a sealed can, describes its contents as "pure and good", and "They keep you all aglow" and carries a picture of the mascot, a smiling man in a top hat. British singer/songwriter and humorist Mike Harding has a song called "Uncle Joe's Mint Balls" on his 1975 album "Mrs. 'Ardin's Kid". It also appeared as the B side to his 1975 single "My Brother Sylveste". Wigan Warriors have a version of the song celebrating some of its legendary rugby players of the 1950s and 60s such as Billy Boston, Brian McTigue and Eric Ashton that plays before some of
Mint mark New Orleans Mint (May 8, 1838), S for the San Francisco Mint (April 3,1854), CC for the Carson City Mint (February 11, 1870), D again (Dahlonega had closed in 1861 never to reopen) now for the Denver Mint (March 12 1906), M for Manilla (where an official US Mint began with the coinage of a one centavo coin on July 15, 1920) and lastly a W for the West Point Mint. The West Point Mint began coin production on July 29,1974 to ease the shortage of quarters and other minor coinage and bore no mint mark. Thus West Point coins