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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 24676556, member: 13650&quot;]Thanks to Burton for posting the link to those reports, I was able to answer my own question looking at the report for 1816:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573983[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Since there were no 1816 quarters, it was concluded that these 20,003 additional made in either late 1815 and delivered in 1816 or actually produced in 1816 with the 1815 die,were tacked on to the official 1815 mintage, totaling the 89,235 number we see printed in the Redbook. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The half dollars I asked about that didn&#039;t show up on 1816s report for 1815, show up on this 1817 report for 1816s production.&nbsp;&nbsp; They were produced in December of 1815, but not delivered until Jan. 1816.&nbsp; So did not show up on a report until the Jan. 1817 report came out, which lays out deliveries for the full year of 1816.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Note the total number of copper cents listed below it, 2,820,982 is the number printed in the Redbook with no additions from the following year.&nbsp;&nbsp; With the halves produced in Dec. 1815 and possibly even the 20k quarters and no gold coined, it appears all the mint did in 1816 was produce those new Matron head cents and nothing else!&nbsp;&nbsp; I guess 1816 was a boring year too.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It stands to reason that not much of the coinage produced during that time would have survived in nice condition as broad acceptance of collecting wouldnt have been a thing yet.&nbsp;&nbsp; Whatever coins made would&#039;ve been needed (maybe desperately) for commerce and circulated for decades.&nbsp;&nbsp; Only a few being forgotten about surviving in mint state.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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