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Page 1 of 2 1 2 >   LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 05-19-2009, 12:42 PM   #1 (permalink) Sholom Coin Hoarder   Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Fairfax, VA Posts: 651 My Mood: Lowest Minted Coin - 20th Cent Circulation/Business Strike OK, with proofs and commemoratives, we can get coins with really low mintages. Let me create a sub-category: What US coin do you own, and provide a pic, that is regular, business strike, for circulation/currency, that has the lowest mintage? Further, the coin must be either a cent, nickel, dime, quarter, half, or dollar -- and it must have been minted from the years 1900-1999. (I.e., no mint sets, no proofs, no commemoratives, no recent gold pieces, and etc).   05-19-2009, 01:04 PM   #2 (permalink) Collect89 Coin Collector     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,497 1922 no D cent with strong reverse. I have a photo on my computer at home. I'll post the pic later tonight. Very best regards, collect89 __________________ "All of us are smarter than any one of us"   05-20-2009, 09:00 AM   #3 (permalink) Collect89 Coin Collector     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,497 Quote: Originally Posted by Collect89 1922 no D cent with strong reverse. I have a photo on my computer at home. I'll post the pic later tonight. Very best regards, collect89 Photo posted now. Attached Thumbnails   __________________ "All of us are smarter than any one of us"   05-19-2009, 01:33 PM   #4 (permalink) tmoneyeagles Indian Buffalo Gatherer     Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: San Antonio Posts: 6,352 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by Sholom OK, with proofs and commemoratives, we can get coins with really low mintages. Let me create a sub-category: What US coin do you own, and provide a pic, that is regular, business strike, for circulation/currency, that has the lowest mintage? Further, the coin must be either a cent, nickel, dime, quarter, half, or dollar -- and it must have been minted from the years 1900-1999. (I.e., no mint sets, no proofs, no commemoratives, no recent gold pieces, and etc). You say circulating, so I'm going to use my gold piece The $2.5 Indians were used as circulating coins... So these should count 1912 $2.5 Mintage of 616,000 __________________ From The Desk Of, -T$ (Kokapowan Tribe Leader) http://www.tmoneyeagles.webs.com/   05-19-2009, 01:58 PM   #5 (permalink) Collect89 Coin Collector     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,497 238,000 minted 238,000 minted. Attached Images   __________________ "All of us are smarter than any one of us"   05-19-2009, 01:59 PM   #6 (permalink) tmoneyeagles Indian Buffalo Gatherer     Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: San Antonio Posts: 6,352 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by Collect89 238,000 minted. That is beautiful! Nice toning, and a big WOW from me... Very nice __________________ From The Desk Of, -T$ (Kokapowan Tribe Leader) http://www.tmoneyeagles.webs.com/   05-19-2009, 11:54 PM   #7 (permalink) Leadfoot Numismatist     Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,617 My Mood: Can we go back to 1889? Puhleeez? I have no real low-mintage 20th century coins (that aren't proofs). Probably my lowest is this 12-S nickel (238k mintage): Second lowest would be this woodgrain 1909-S (mintage of 1.8M, IIRC):   05-20-2009, 09:03 AM   #8 (permalink) Collect89 Coin Collector     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,497 Quote: Originally Posted by Leadfoot Can we go back to 1889? Puhleeez? Please post a photo of the 1889 along with the mintage figure. Very best regards, collect89 __________________ "All of us are smarter than any one of us"   05-20-2009, 10:29 AM   #9 (permalink) Treashunt The Other Frank     Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New York Posts: 16,669 1913 S Barber Quarter 1913 S Barber Quarter. Mintage 40,000 Lowest mintage of the 20th century. Attached Thumbnails   __________________ The Other Frank "Buy The Book Before The Coin!" http://www.whitmanbooks.com/Default....wUpcoming_1208 Last edited by Treashunt; 05-20-2009 at 10:31 AM. Reason: usual mis-speeling   05-20-2009, 11:04 AM   #10 (permalink) Sholom Coin Hoarder   Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Fairfax, VA Posts: 651 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by Treashunt 1913 S Barber Quarter. Mintage 40,000 Lowest mintage of the 20th century. Wow -- I know next to nothing about Barbers and didn't realize that. Nice! Can you (or anyone) answer me this question: why is a 1901-S worth so much more than a 1913-S? (mintage for 01-S is 72,664). And for that matter, another question: why did they make so few? Thanks!   05-21-2009, 03:26 PM   #11 (permalink) Collect89 Coin Collector     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,497 Quote: Originally Posted by Treashunt 1913 S Barber Quarter. Mintage 40,000 Lowest mintage of the 20th century. Here is a nice MS 66 example for sale. http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item...t_No=656#Photo Very best regards, collect89 P.S. I'd like to find a nice "Fine" example but I doubt I could afford it. __________________ "All of us are smarter than any one of us" Last edited by Collect89; 05-21-2009 at 03:31 PM. Reason: added post script   05-26-2009, 02:02 AM   #12 (permalink) Lehigh96 Toning Freak     Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: The Poker Room Posts: 3,012 My Mood: Blog Entries: 2 Quote: Originally Posted by Treashunt 1913 S Barber Quarter. Mintage 40,000 Lowest mintage of the 20th century. Well, I can't beat that coin or a 1916 SLQ, but how about this: 1915 Barber Half Dollar VG8 Mintage: 138,000   05-26-2009, 08:37 AM   #13 (permalink) Daboz Senior Member     Join Date: May 2009 Location: Central Florida Posts: 148 These were minted to by rolls of stamps. Certainly a for circulation piece. From my collection .Mintage: Circulation strikes: 5,000 Proofs: 39 Attached Images   __________________ www.cflcoins.com   05-21-2009, 07:32 PM   #14 (permalink) mark_h Numismatist     Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 6,189 The 1889 must be something gold - but if you do that go back even further and allow proofs. The I can post my 1878(mintage 2500) proof shield nickel. Of course I have a 1922 no D - but I consider that coin really an error. __________________ the other mark Best Baan Community Empty airtite seeks unwanted coins. All sizes welcome.   05-26-2009, 01:45 AM   #15 (permalink) Conder101 Numismatist   Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 4,448 I'll have to go with my 12-S nickel as well. __________________ Slab collector and researcher reported as of 12/29/06 132 companies 332 production varieties   Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google Would you like to support CoinTalk? Coin Talk Code of Honor 1. Post unto others as you would have them post unto you. 2. 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