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Message:: [QUOTE="Omegaraptor, post: 24438936, member: 76105"]Q: How many large cents were minted in 1799? A: In 1799, the United States Mint produced large cents with two different design types. The first type, known as the "1799/8 overdate," features the date 1799 over an underlying 1798 date. The second type, known as the "Normal Date" or "1799 Plain Date," features just the date 1799. The total mintage for large cents in 1799 was 904,885 coins, with the majority being the Normal Date variety. Specifically, the mintage numbers for each variety were: <ul> <li>1799/8 overdate: 42,540</li> <li>1799 Normal Date: 862,345</li> </ul>It's worth noting that these mintage numbers are for all large cents produced in 1799, and not just those in circulated condition. Many of these coins were likely lost, melted down, or otherwise destroyed over time, making them scarcer and potentially more valuable to collectors today. I'm genuinely impressed that it gets the correct mintage figure for 1799, even if it fails to mention most of that 904k mintage was dated 1798.[/QUOTE]