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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1831803, member: 112&quot;]The total mintage numbers of all coins is released by the mint the year following their mintage. This is usually towards the latter part of the year because the mint operates on a June to June fiscal year. The total number of coins issued for circulation, (sold to the Fed in other words), and the total number sold to the public is published in the mint&#039;s Annual Report every year. So that is one source for the information you seek.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another source are the coin magazines, Coin World and Numismatic News. Each of these magazines publishes the numbers of coins sold each month, by the mint; and to who, meaning the public or the Fed. And usually, again in the latter part of the year, both of the magazines publish the total numbers for the previous year. And every once in a while one of the staff writers will do a story on a particular coin like the 2001 halves which provides all of the particulars after the fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with the monthly magazine articles is that the numbers of coins sold can change due to returns that occur sometimes months after the coins are sold to the public. This also affects the reported mintage numbers, and that is why the total mintage numbers are not finalized and released by the mint until a year after the fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line the info you want is out there but you have to go dig it up, from one of the two sources I mentioned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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