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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26053553, member: 4626&quot;]Well semantics I guess, if you do one thing before doing another thing, doing the first thing essentially delayed the second thing.&nbsp; I guess it&#039;s not a &quot;delay&quot; in the sense that they weren&#039;t sitting around waiting to do the second thing, but the first thing still had to be done first.&nbsp; They weren&#039;t minting two different designs at once.</p><p><br /></p><p>But nickels are needed, Denver doesn&#039;t have a new design yet and has an order to mint nickels.&nbsp; (Just a guess on my part I&#039;ll admit, but I have seen claims that they didn&#039;t have the new design in time to get production up for the number of nickels they needed to produce.&nbsp; They get the new design at some point, but past the point they needed to start production on nickels.)&nbsp; Buffalo nickels are what they have.&nbsp; So... they mint the Jefferson nickels after those are done.&nbsp; But since they already made 7 million of them don&#039;t need to make as many Jeffersons.&nbsp; (They still ended up minting about 5 million of those but it&#039;s less than the 19 million Philadelphia minted).&nbsp; Makes sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>Correction though 1938-S is still a little rare than 1938-D; San Francisco minted about 4 million that year.&nbsp; (Not really &quot;rare&quot; but rarer than the other two.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ignoring the designs Denver minted about 12 million nickels that year, not much rarer than the 19 million Philadelphia minted, but that mintage is over two designs.&nbsp; Making 1938-D a common Buffalo but a key date Jefferson.</p><p><br /></p><p>Philadelphia and San Francisco were not minting buffalo nickels in 1938; they only minted the new Jeffersons.&nbsp; Denver still did mint buffalo nickels, has to be some reason for that.&nbsp; My semi-educated guess, nickels are still needed, someone has to mint them, they don&#039;t have the new design yet.&nbsp; Anyone knows or has a better guess would love to hear it.&nbsp; Human being do things for reasons; it&#039;s not just random, so there has to be some reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know, I just like trying to make sense of things.&nbsp; It does at least explain why a 1938-D Jefferson is relatively rare; they were still minting Buffaloes that year.&nbsp; I was just attempting to make sense of why <i>that</i> was done.&nbsp; If anyone has a better theory or even better a confirmed explanation, would love to hear it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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