Firstly ...what do you think Ryan? Some thoughts: • A huge hundred million number destroys the design, especially on the smallest diameter coins. • The SN would be easy to fake, alter or obscure. • Add an SN and you need more security features to protect the unique SN from the above. • If you add a unique number do you create a machine to count the SN? • What purpose does it serve the Mint, banks, public...?
There is a serial numbered Bill of Rights Half Dollar (check the Red Book). I believe it was numbered by the Madison Foundation & the ANA. Only about 9,000 of them exist.
Yep - why? But you could put them on the edge - we know how well that worked. It sounds interesting, but what would be the purpose? I just can't imagine a reason why.
I do not like the idea, but if the SN was also the sequential production number it could help truly determine "First Strikes" and "Early Releases" for the TPG's. It could also lead to new SN type sets...I have all the 1,799,023 business strike coins from 2015. Again, I do not like the idea. TC
There have been serial numbers on a very limited number of silver art rounds in the past but in those cases, these silver art rounds had low mintages and the S.N. dd not take away from the look of the silver art round. I do not think that it would work for regular coins because the mintages are larger and that means large numbers to stamp on the coin. This is just an example but stamping Serial # 100,000,000 on, for example, a 1/10th oz gold Eagle would not work IMO.
Lincoln Cent production can exceed 4 billion. That is 4,000,000,000. Where could a number that long be placed on an already crowded coin?
Many of the really valuable ones have a serial number assigned by the grading TPG, other than those, I don't think so. Just think of how much it would add to the cost of the already losing proposition of minting pennies and nickels.
If your are looking for there to be something unique about your coin as opposed to the 100,000,000+ minted along side it than just collect errors
Quite a few expensive collector coins have serial numbers, usually on the edge. And theoretically that could be done with any coin that is made primarily for collectors, especially pieces that cannot be had at face anyway. When it comes to circulation coins, however, I think such a number would make production quite a bit more expensive. So while I don't appreciate serial numbers on coins anyway, they will certainly not be used on everyday's coinage ... Christian
Serial Numbers for coins is a bit excessive but I have often thought serial numbers for working dies as part of the coin design would be nice.
That's been tried, believe it or not. Great Britain did this on their sixpences, shillings, and florins from 1867-1879. If nothing else, it makes collecting by die variety much easier. As for serial numbers on coins, it would work on larger coins if they did it as part of the edge lettering. I've seen a number of silver rounds that have numbers there. That having been said, I don't see the point of doing so on circulating coins, especially considering that there would probably be a good deal of expense involved.
Most or all €100 gold coins from the French "Europa" series for example have them. Those are 5 oz pieces. And no, I don't smoke. Christian