Fast and Loose at the mint in the mid 60s...

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  1. Burton Strauss III

    Burton Strauss III Brother can you spare a trime? Supporter

    I was answering a ? over on Reddit and I found the data I've always heard about but not seen.

    Specifically, around the minting of 1964 dated silver coins through April 1966.

    https://archive.org/details/annualreportofdi1967unit_k0d9/page/2/mode/2up?view=theater

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    I didn't realize that this applied to 1c and 5c and that all the data is published in one place

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    Page 141, a summary of above, omitted

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    Of interest

    1965 SMS struck in San Francisco in June 1966 and a small amount in July.

    Note that the fiscal year ended July 30th, 1966 and there could be more data in the next report.
     
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  3. Histman

    Histman Too Many Coins, Not Enough Time!

    Nice information.
     
  4. Burton Strauss III

    Burton Strauss III Brother can you spare a trime? Supporter

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  5. CoinCorgi

    CoinCorgi Tell your dog I said hi!

    Well that's pretty darn cool! Thanks for posting it. I might just save it to my library!
     
  6. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    While the Annual Mint Report for recent years doesn't really contain much information, there is a tremendous amount of information in the older reports.
     
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  7. Vess1

    Vess1 CT SP VIP Supporter

    Yeah, was going to mention, I posted a thread here last year and someone added the 1815 and 1816 mint report discussing quarter production, (or lack there of) in 1815. Was very interesting. In 1816 they only made 2 million large cents and a small batch of additional halves and quarters produced in 1815, showed up on the 1816 report. 89,235 quarters minted, with the mintages showing up on two separate years to obtain that final number.
    1815 was the first year of the capped bust quarter and they weren't planning on making any until someone who sent some silver in from Lousiana specifically requested it be made into quarter dollars. They finally accepted and did it. Then no more quarters were made until three years later.

    I like these reports from the 60s.
     
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