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Message:: [QUOTE="bohica, post: 51165, member: 80"]1858 Canadian Twenty Cent Coin Mintage And Melt Numbers First an Acknowledgement – This post would not have been possible without the help of Mr. Joseph Payne, Assistant Curator of the British Royal Mint. Mr. Payne’s efforts in procuring and mailing me copies of the pertinent pages from the Royal Mint’s Annual Reports went far beyond any help I had hoped to receive. 1858 Canadian Twenty Cent Coin Mintage And Melt Numbers $150,000 in Twenty Cent pieces were minted in 1858. This dollar amount is listed in the 1891 British Royal Mint Annual Report and is repeated in the 1906 Report as well. This equates to 750,000 coins; the figure listed in the Krause Standard Catalog Of World Coins. Beginning in 1885 Twenty Cent coins were removed from circulation and returned to the Royal Mint for recoining. All dollar amounts listed are from Mint Annual Reports for the year in the first column. 1885 – $18,000 – 90,000 coins1888 – $17,174 – 85,870 coins1889 – $16,585 – 82,925 coins*1894 – $15,000 – 75,000 coins1899 – $18,895 – 94,475 coins1906 – an unknown number of 5, 10 and 20 Cent coins (total face value of $7,460.75)Total – $85,654 – 428,270+ coins melted ( approximately 321,730 possible survivors ) *An alternate dollar amount is listed in the 1891 Annual Report1889 – $17,074 – 85,370 coinsTotal – $86,143 – 430,715+ coins melted ( approximately 319,285 possible survivors )[/QUOTE]