Top 5 lowest minted U.S. Coins in your collection?

It was the 97 Jefferson I was thinking of. For that type of money though I would prefer a 1942 Proof War Nickel. A little more interesting and history with it IMO.

 

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2002 $10 Platinum Eagle 23,005
2001 $10 Platinum Eagle 21,815
2004 $10 Platinum Eagle 15,010
2005 $10 Platinum Eagle 14,013
2007 $25 Platinum Eagle Proof 6,017

 

That's a lot of Platinum!

 

My lowest (1854 half cent, 55,358)and fifth lowest ('09 SVDB, 484,000) show that low mintages don't always equal higher value. Both coins are in relativly the same grade but the Lincoln is valued at about 10 times what the half cent is. Apparently half cents need more love.
My other three are quarters, an 1831 Capped Bust(398,000) and the '32 D and S Washingtons.

 

Interesting thread.
Not the lowest, some Seated dimes are far lower, but for fun, some favorites:

Lets start with:

1913 S Barber Quarter, lowest quarter of the 20th Century:
40,000




1916 P Standing Liberty:

72,000


or a few more:


While not very low, a favorite:

1896 S Barber quarter:
188,039:



or a few more:


Lowest barber Half Dollar:
1914 P
124,610



others, but no pix.

 

Do we consider varieties or not? E.g. I got a 1819 CBH O-107 which is an R3 variety.

 

Honestly, to everyone with this question...don't over think this.

 

I think we should stick with items of known mintage, not varieties. If we did varieties I could go a LOT lower, but other than as estimates you can't really say how many of a given variety were made or exist.

 

No not varieties, just yearly mintage numbers for a given coin per the mint's numbers

 

Here is my US coins (notice it doesn't say US minted coins) in mintage order:

2009DC Silver Eagle Proof (386)
2012 Collector's Puck - Hawaii (14,863)
2012 Collector's Puck - Maine (14,978)
2012 Collector's Puck - Denali (15,225)
2011 Collector's Puck - Chickasaw (16,827)

 

Is the ASE because the pop report for deep cameo is only 386, or was that how many proof ASEs they made in 2009?

 

The US Mint didn't make any ASE's proofs in 2009.

 

Well then what is a 2009DC Silver Eagle Proof (386) that PhilHam was talking about?

A Daniel Carr product?

 

You'll have to ask him. Here is a list of coins not offered by the mint in 2009.

 

I wouldn't have posted that name as your thread is likely to get highjacked, but yes, that's what it is.

 

Had no idea but I will be sure to keep folks on track. It's a really simple request:

If a CoinTalk user is up for it, post the lowest 5 coins in terms of mintage as made by the US Government entity called the Mint.

If DC really stands for Daniel Carr on the item above then it doesn't meet the criteria. Although for that particular user my guess would be the next in his list for low mintage would be another 5oz ATB puck.

Please no Daniel Carr coins on the list. Let's stay focused on coins made by the US Government as intended for circulation or collectors.

 

1864 G$5 - 4,170
1857 H1C - 35,180
1850 H1C - 39,812
1849 H1C- 39,864
1856 H1C - 40,430

Lowest mintage circulation strikes that I know I have. There may be something a bit scarcer in the safe deposit box that I've forgotten about. Tons of stuff sub 200K.

And I would agree that half cents need more love, but that would make them more expensive for me to hoard! I'm perfectly happy having them perceived a maligned issue, like the 3c nickel.

 

I have lots of love for 3-cent nickels.

 

Now I know why I haven't been able to find an 1896-S or 1913-S Barber quarter -- Frank's hogging them all!

My collection's disorganized enough that I may be forgetting some low-mintage, low-demand stuff, but I'm pretty sure it goes something like this:

1878-P Trade dollar (proof-only, 900) [holed, engraved and beaten, but apparently genuine]
2010 Jane Pierce First Spouse (unc, 3,333)

And, if you want only circulation issues, start here:

1914 Barber half (124,230)
1915 Barber half (138,000)
1913 Barber half (188,000)
1912-s Liberty nickel (238,000)
1921 WL half (246,000)

All five of these are rarer than either the 1916-D dime or the 1909-S VDB cent (neither of which I own), but either the dime or cent would be worth more than any of them in comparable grade, and probably worth more than all of them together in the grades I own.

 

In my case it would have to be my collection of 2010-2013 "pucks" and several of the uncirculated clad commemorative half dollars. I have many more non-USA coins and sets that have mintages way below 10,000 coins.