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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 24616383, member: 104064&quot;]Another bit of trivia - from the monthly coinage records you can decipher that at least in the years 1896-1906, they minted proof sets quarterly in March, June, September, and December. The Philadelphia &quot;number of pieces&quot; in other months almost always ends in 000 (for non-gold), so the proof numbers show up as the non-000 number. In the example below, they coined 100 proofs of the &quot;subsidiary&quot; coins (halves, quarters, dimes) and 300 of the nickels and cents in September 1900. The numbers were high in March (collectors wanting the new year right away), low in June and September, then high again in December (procrastinators not wanting to miss out?).</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/Rg104entry271vol5/page/n69/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/Rg104entry271vol5/page/n69/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/Rg104entry271vol5/page/n69/mode/2up</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564981[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564982[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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