Does anyone know by any chance how many made for circulation silver coins have been made in the history of the US?
Not sure I have time to do all that math Maybe someone else has already done it though and will chime in. Keep in mind that a big percentage of silver coins that have been minted by the US over the course of 200 years have been destroyed in one way or another, inside and outside of the mint.
I'm with you. I was going to start doing it and then decided it would be smarter to check and see if it had already been done before. Definitely agree a lot has been destroyed, curious to see what the grand total is though.
I too am a little curious. I will now try to find out. It would be cool to compare how many clad coins were made in just the past 50 years vs silver coins in 150
Here are seated quarters, taken from coinmintages.com (apparently a website which will help in this thread) http://coinmintages.com/liberty-seated-quarters-mintage/ 55,498,956. The average mintage per issue was 1,439,805.
I put this together a few weeks ago. I had some time on my hands and felt like researching U.S. 90%, in case anyone is interested in just how much 90% was minted: Washington Quarter 1932-1964, total mintage= 3.78 billion, 675 million oz silver Mercury Dime 1916-1945, total mintage= 2.6 billion, 185 million oz silver Roosevelt Dime 1946-1964, total mintage= 6.6 billion, 470 million oz silver Walking Liberty Half Dollar 1916-1947= total mintage 485 million, 173 million oz silver Ben Franklin Half Dollar 1948-1963, total mintage= 465 million, 165 million oz silver JFK half dollar 1964, total mintage= 430 million, 153 million oz silver JFK half dollar 1965-70, 40% silver, total mintage= 846 million, 127 million oz silver From those series alone there's 1,948,000,000 oz of silver but who knows how much of it has been melted down. Morgan Dollar 1878-1921 Total Mintage= 657 million, 508 million oz Peace Dollar 1921-1935 Total Mintage= 190 million, 147 million oz Standing Liberty Quarter 1916-1930 Total Mintage= 226 million, 40 million oz Barber Quarter 1892-1916 Total Mintage= 264 million, 47 million oz Barber Half Dollar 1892-1915 Total Mintage= 136 million, 48 million oz Barber Dime 1892-1916 Total Mintage= 504 million, 36 million oz Another 826 million oz (of course many more of these have been melted, and the ones that haven't been typically sell for numismatic premiums)
That's great work Tinpot, I would like it twice if I could. I didn't use a calculator, but from rough math it looks like around 17 billion silver coins from your figures.
Except he didn't count the first century of US coinage. Mintage figures are a published, public record and easily found for all series in the first result of a Google search.
They got a name for guys like you.......'bean counters' with too much time on there hands. Nice research........
