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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PennyGuy, post: 776686, member: 17502&quot;]<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">I think we all would like to see such statistics, if they could ever be generated.&nbsp; The biggest problem would be the credibility of any result.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">In two cent pieces the author Kevin Flynn, in his book &quot;Getting Your Two Cents Worth&quot;, reports his research of production records.&nbsp; Flynn&#039;s research reports that 45,601,000 Business Strikes and 7,160 Proof Strikes were produced, with the noted caveats.&nbsp; From 1871 to 1881 Mint records noted a total of 17,557,941 pieces were melted and reused to mint cents.&nbsp; No records have been found that detail the dates of the pieces melted.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">In his book &quot;The Two Cent Piece and Varieties: Myron M. Kliman attempts to analyze survival rates of proof strike two cent pieced.&nbsp; His conclusion in the book is 62.5 %</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">To my knowledge these are the most current works on mintages or survival rates of the series.&nbsp; Flynn&#039;s book is dated 1994 and Kliman&#039;s is 1977.&nbsp; So if anyone is looking for a research project I&#039;d suggest this one. </font></span></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp; </font></font>:smile[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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