My coin albums say it is 100K, but the 2008 redbook has it listed at 6K. Does anyone know the correct mintage?
6k is a good estimate of how many were not melted from each mint. The Redbook gets this messed up. Some coins show total mintage and others show what was not melted.
Here is what I found. These values came from Coin values online. They have their columns set up this way.... Original Mintage, Melted, Final mintage, orignal price and designer obv/rev. Its actually a really nice guide. Arghhhh! My computer sucks. I was trying to type out the chart for you all, but my computer is acting up. Anyway. The series had a total mintage of 1,000,546. In 1947 there was a total mintage of 100,017 for each mint so there was over 300k minted total for that year. But there are question marks in the columns for numbers melted and final mintage. It isn't until 1948 where we see a final mintage of 8k for each mint and 1949 & 1950 had 6k for each mint. Now remember these aren't original mintages, these are final... which means after the meltage. 1950S and 1951P both have question marks across the board and 1951D and S both have total mintages of 7k. There are these odd numbers like 12,004 and 20,005 and so on, and I believe the extra 4/5 coins were assay coins. Could be wrong there. I remember hearing at one time why the numbers were like that but can't remember. Hope this helps.
