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I have been thinking about doing this for a while and now I am finially going to do it! I will be taking every year of every U.S. coin ever made and figuring out what mint has produced the rarest coins for a given year. I know it kind of sounds weird so I will do an example... In this example , I will do Mercury dimes for the first 2 years... 1916 22,180,080 1916-D 264,000 1916-S 10,450,000 1917 55,230,000 1917-D 9,402,000 1917-S 27,330,000 I this example, Denver would win because it had the lowest mintages for both years. Because of this, Denver would get 2 points and the other 2 mints would get 0. I, and the people that choose to help me will be assigned a series by me to tally up the points for each mint. You would do this by following the example above, but doing it for each coin in the series. The larger sets like Morgan dollars will likely be split up and I will try to make it so no one has more than 10 years to do. After this is all done I will post a new topic with the results and the names of all the people who helped. If you would like to help, send me a PM and I will give you a series (or part of one). After you finish, send me another PM with the results. Here is another example... P 20 D 35 S 45 Feel free to post what mint you think will win (personally, I think it will be Carson City) |
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Interesting idea. I am wondering about the series that were only coined at Philadelphia. -large cents, Two Cents, Three Cent Nickels, Shield nickels were produced at Philadelphia so how would that work? I'm willing to try one series. |
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Doesn't matter how you skew it, short of requiring a "minimum mintage years" metric - Charlotte will win.  Carson City produced more value in Morgans alone than Charlotte and Dahlonega combined. |
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Well, based on the scoring system the mint that produced coins on a small scale over a large period of time is going to "win". If you don't mint any coins you can't score any points.
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Ignoring the Philly-only series[1], it's going to be San Francisco. They've been around for a while, and made a lot of tiny and small mintages. That said, Denver and Carson City might be close. Charlotte and Dahlonega, of course, are going to get points for the entirety of their periods, but their periods are very short, they didn't participate in many series even within their periods, and they would still be competing with each other. [1] though if we include the Liberty nickels and IHCs, which aren't technically Philly-only, it would still skew the count a lot |
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If there is a database of coins, I can probably end this in a few minutes! It seems like a fairly straightforward query to run.
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I know in Kevin Flynn's book "The authoritative reference on Two Cent Pieces" he has culled the mint records at the National Archives in Philadelphia and come up with melt numbers on many coins. Interesting to see just how many coins were melted down after being pulled from circulation. Your project is an interesting idea for sure! "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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I have decided not to include coins that were only Phily made like Lg. cents, Shield nickels, 2 cent pieces, etc. I am also not doing proofs. |
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Meadow, what series would you like?
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Don't forget the Manila mint.  |
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You cannot judge "rarity" on mintage alone. Take the 1931-S Lincoln Cent for example. The mintage is low but is certainly not a rare coin since they were hoarded. |
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If there is a database of coins, I can probably end this in a few minutes! It seems like a fairly straightforward query to run.
It's not a database, but every single number anyone in this thread will ever need is to the left, under the "US Coin Facts" link. I wonder if Bobby can hit it as a database, or maybe some kind of wget diddle.... |
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