Coins Not Issued For General Circulation?

I would like to know any coins issued since 1964 which can be found only in so-called collector mint sets or mint rolls and were never minted for general circulation. One I know of is the 1970 D Kennedy Half. I also believe that neither the Kennedy Halves nor Sac Dollars are now minted/issued except in uncirculated mint sets or mint rolls, but would appreciate if anyone could tell me when those two issues were stopped for general circulation, as well as any other U.S. coins which have been placed on the same path by the mint. Thanks for your help!

 

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I've been told that the 1981 Susan B. Anthony $1 coins weren't in circulation,whereas,the other 3 dates were.I have seen one example of a circulated 2001P Sacagawea $1 over here.

Modern Kennedy $1/2 are circulation coins,but they are very seldom seen.We occasionally see ones dated 1998 turn up over here in New Zealand for some strange reason.

Aidan.

 

The 1970-D Half
The 1973-S Dollar
The 1981-P-D-S Dollars
The SAC's dollars since 2001

I don't think I forgot any.....

Speedy

 

Have they actually issued halves for circulation in a while? Or are they like the SBA's? It will take 20 years for the 2006s to reach the top of the pile in the vaults?

 

Cents; None (though most '70-S small dates and many superb gems and PL's were issued only in mint sets)

Nickels; None

dimes; '96-W

Quarters; None

Half dollars; '70-D, '87-P&D (issues after 20001 are available only in sets and in rolls from the mint

Dollars; '73- P&D, '81-P, D & S

All proof, commem(50c and larger), and bullion coins.

There are numerous varieties which appear only in mint sets and even more that do not appear in sets or appear both in sets and in circulation. It's like the '68 DDO dime, '88 RR half, and '69-D/D dime appear only in mint sets to name a few.

The list of circulation coins that don't appear in mint sets is even more interesting. People haven't been paying any attention to modern coins and the sole source for many is the mint sets. This leaves some very common coins that can't be found in unc.

 

Thanks!!

Many thanks to everyone for your fine responses to my question! You've been of great help!

 

So what were the general circulation coins not issued also in mint sets?

 

cents; all '82 and '83 issues. five major '82 varieties. six major '74 varieties.

nickels; all '82 and '83 issues. three major '82 varieties.

dimes all '82 and '83 issues, '82 NMM

quarters; all '82 and '83 issues, several major varieties.

half dollars; all '82 and '83 issues,

dollars; all '71 and '72 issues including three '72-D varieties, '79-S and '99 issues, near date variety.

There are also all the non-SMS coins and several special issue coins.


While many of these coins were in souvenir sets, the quality of these sets is not up to mint set standards and these sets were made in extremely limited numbers. The '79-S dollar also appeared in a special 3-pc souvenir set and these are sometimes up to mint set standards.

While collectors today consider many of these "different" coins to be varieties, they often have many more similarities to being types because the mint intentionally redesigned and then issued the coins. In other cases they are types only because they fulfill most of the defining characteristics of being "types" but were issued inadvertantly. Whatever you call them they are in circulation and often in huge numbers and they do not appear in mint sets.

 

Not familiar with the "RR" designation- could you explain what kind of a variety that is for a 1988 half dollar?

 

It's rotated reverse. These come with varying degrees of rotation and appear in about .6% of '88 mint sets.

Other such coins can be found at this site; http://www.rotateddies.com/census.htm

 

Don't forget the 1996W dime too, that was a mint set only coin.

 

I have found a ton of 2002, 2003, 2004 half in the boxes I have gone through, mostlt 2001 however, should I be keeping those? also the box of Sacs I went through I pulled out a hand full of newer 01+02+03 ones.
So I see this topic going thowards what should we be saving for the future? any ideas?

 

I too find Kennedy Halves in rolls from the bank dated 02,03, etc. Don't know why or how they get there but I would think that many people get them for presents, don't know what they are and just spend them. Or through home robberies of coin collections and the robbers just dumping the coins into circulation. Most of the ones I've found were so beat up I just use them as tips at restaurants.

 

"My theory - they are discards from people searching the mint rolls and bags for gems to be submitted for slabbing in hopes of getting those high grade examples. What else could they do with the discards except spend them or cash them in." --GDJMSP

Sell them as BU rolls?? I don't know. How do BU rolls work?

 

No, I mean couldn't they sell their discards as BU rolls? But I don't know how the market for BU rolls works, only that there is a market for BU rolls. After being cherrypicked does it still qualify as BU? Can a BU roll be assembled in this way? Is there a profit margin large enough to stash them back as BU rolls? Or is there just so many of them already on the market that there's no profit incentive for this sort of thing? I don't know anything about the BU roll market. Obviously.