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Has any collector here researched possible mintages on various die varieties? As Charlton's and other sources typically list total mintages for any given year, it's rather hard to calculate mintages for specific varieties. However, I found one online source that provides die usage figures from RCM mint reports. For example, consider the 1953 NSF "large date" 50c. For 1953, there were a total of 2.6M 50c pieces struck, using 93 obverse dies and 66 reverse dies, and per die pair there were 33,299 coins struck. So the real question is--how many large date reverse dies were made? Given the different date positions for the same year on 50c pieces of this era, I'll guess the date is added at the master die stage. I'll gather that only by doing a detailed analysis of 1953 large dates, one could determine the number of dies used--and the total population of this variety.  Most likely, it is a multiple of the 32,999 figure. In contrast, we can easily calculate the population of the Newfoundland 1940 1c variety that used a re-engraved die. For 1940, the total cent production is given as 300,000. And, since (6) 1c die pairs were used for 1940, the total population of this variety is 300,000/6 or 50,000 coins, which makes it rather key coin!  Edited by KurtS
04/01/2008 3:16 pm
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Very interesting, Kurt, I know the Newfoundland coins have low mintages anyway, I actually think most Newfoundland coins are fairly "Key" Also good to know about the 1953 NSF lrg. date, I have a couple of those.  Thanks for posting this info. |
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Shafta, you're right--NFLD coins are fairly "key" mintages compared to Canada! Btw, did you ever see this update on the 1944 mintages? |
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Hey Kurt, what exactly are the different varieties of the 1953 50 cent, I just realized I have one and I know its a LD but not sure about the NSF or SF
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04/02/2008 10:09 pm
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Aweber77, According to my Charlton's catalogue, there's a NSF "small date", NSF "large date", and a SF "large date". It's rather hard to tell between SF and NSF, but you could do a search here to find the attributes. Or, just post a pic and I'll give you my opinion on your coin. |
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I'll try to get a picture up tomorow but I believe it is probably the less expensive one because I got it for free.
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Kurt, this is my failed attempt at taking pictures, they are very blurry.   |
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Wow...a double struck coin! Seriously though...a tripod might be a big help. In any case, I think I can see through the blur and call this a SF LD. |
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