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Valued Member
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What mint made the Special Mint Sets?
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Pillar of the Community
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My understanding is that they were produced at the San Francisco Assay Office.
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Pillar of the Community
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Edited by CoinCents
08/03/2016 11:25 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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Here are the production figures that year: 1965 301,470,000
1965D 973,364,900
1965S 220,030,000
1965S-SMS- 2,360,000
1966 811,100,000
1966D 991,431,200
1966S 383,355,000
1966S-SMS 2,261,583
1967 907,575,000
1967D 1,327,377,100
1967S 813,715,000
1967S-SMS 1,863,344 Edited by coop
08/03/2016 11:23 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Although coop's numbers are sound (Es kann nicht anders?] I don't think any coins bear the mint marks during those years. Am I correct in saying that applied across the board?
Edited by Biedercoins
08/03/2016 11:45 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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These were from the mints records. The mint marks were not added to help reduce collector hording at that time. So it would be impossible to say what mint the business strike cents were from as they didn't have mint marks. The SMS show that were struck in San Francisco.
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I made the table a little bit clearer.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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DD27 has probably beaten me to it, I found a reference in the 1966 Annual Report of the Director of the Mint. Quote:
During the 10-month period from September 1965 through June 1966, San Francisco produced a total of 556,267,585 coins. Included were 537,077,585 domestic coins for regular issue, 7,440,000 foreign coins for the Government of the Republic of Panama, and 11,750,000 coins for Special Mint Sets. I would assume since they made those they continued to make the rest of the SMS coins. I could check the later Annual Reports if you think that necessary. More information from the 1966 report. Quote:
The San Francisco facility was selected to manufacture the new type of coin set, designated "Special Mint Sets "-- so- called in order to distinguish them from sets of proof coins and uncirculated coins formerly made. A Treasury Department press notice describing the Special Mint Sets is given as Exhibit 3 in this Report.
Five of the heavy duty, knuckle presses obtained from the Department of Defense and installed in the Denver Mint for stamping coins, were transferred to San Francisco, and were adapted for the production of the special pieces. Mechanical equipment for processing the orders, heat-sealing the coin sets, and packaging them for shipment was transferred from storage in Philadelphia. Necessary production personnel were recruited and trained. So we know they packaged at, Processed, and probably shipped from San Francisco as well. Edited by Conder101
08/03/2016 7:44 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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I also heard that the West Point mint also struck coins during that time period. But I didn't find any mint figures on that.
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Bedrock of the Community
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No, West Point coins came later. West point cents
1975 1,577,294,142
1976 1.540,695,000
1977 1,395,355,000
1978 1,531,250,000
1979 1,705,850,000
1980 1,576,200,000
1981 1,882,400,000
1982 1,990,005,000
1983 2,004,400,000
1984 2,036,215,000
1985 696,585,000
1986 400,000
West Point quarters
1976 376,000
1977 7,352,000
1978 20,800,000
1979 22,672,000 |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Great more numbers to add to my population figures.
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Posted 08/02/2016 11:59 pm
to CCF. Can't answer that question but you can check out this site - might have what you need. I just googled your question and there are a lot of reference sites there including the US Mint website.
re: where the Special Mint Sets were produced. Here's the reference:
