Sell your coins to the US Mint (Mint purchases of coins in 1949)

From the "Annual Report of the Director of the Mint" for 1950 available on the Newman Numismatic Portal at:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/341

Page 53, Domestic coins, including assay pieces, withdrawn from monetary use during the calendar year 1949

Below is the column for individual purchases, there is a separate column for coins received from banks.
The mints paid face value for the coins including gold coins and trade dollars.
I calculated and added the "number of coins".

Denomination, Purchased (face value), Number of coins
Gold $3, $15, 5
Gold $1, $30, 30
Silver trade dollars, $4, 4
Silver 20-cent pieces, (zero)
Silver half dimes, $0.10, 2
Silver 3-cent pieces, $0.03, 1
Nickel 3-cent pieces, (zero)
Copper 1/2-cent pieces, $81.03, 16206 (Somebody had a lot of 1/2 cent pieces)


Only worth a dollar? In 1949 yes.

 

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Well, duh. Why would you sell your 20-cent piece to the Mint when you could pass it off as a quarter? @Inspector43

 

Interesting thanks for sharing.