1916 D Mercury Dime. A Curious Descrepancy In The Official Mintage - Page 2

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wadahek Valued Member United States 142 Posts	Posted 03/05/2017 6:32 pm I think it's safe to say that the best answer to this question would be a reliable guess at best. The mint workers who published that estimate that year, or that mintage amount that year are likely hard to contact without some kind of seance. Although I agree that for historic curiosity sake, it'd be interesting to know the answer, I think it may be more frustrating than it's worth to debate the possibilities. Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 03/05/2017 6:38 pm Must agree. All in, tough date. Report this Post to the Staff
afewmorecents Valued Member United States 97 Posts	Posted 03/05/2017 7:03 pm IMO, this is an effort in futility. The RedBook I'm looking at says the mintage of 1916-D coins was 264,000. I don't have the Mint Report here. The estimated number of strikes from a die in Denver during 1916 means nothing as far as the actual number of coins struck. Additionally, the average number of coins struck from a die has no relation to any number of coins struck from each die. Report this Post to the Staff
jmkendall Pillar of the Community United States 1590 Posts	Posted 03/05/2017 11:27 pm First this is not an ESTIMATE. This is the official number of peices struck per die. I have verified this by looking at each years reports and corrolating them. Second, yes, it is the gross amount, before all the QC rejects are taken out. Third; all the amounts by the branch mint are in an even number. Even though it says that coins were minted till they ran out of bronze, or silver, or gold. Fourth; the numbers are suprisingly wrong in some instances. For instance the OFFICIAL number of LWC peices struck at SF for 1918 were more than 187K than the submitted mintage. Lastly, how do you think that the RedBook, et al got their numbers? By looking at the official mintages for each Calander Year in the Mint Directors Report. All I'm doing is taking an in depth look at things that everyone assumes because the " RedBook"" says it is so. Anyway, this is all research for a book, and I don't really want to publish too much on a free forum. Sometimes...things change. Edited by jmkendall 03/05/2017 11:29 pm Report this Post to the Staff
macmercury Pillar of the Community United States 5832 Posts	Posted 03/06/2017 07:32 am Hold on! So you're stating that the numbers are mostly inaccurate in the Red Book, and the Mint Director Report are off? But before the QC rejects are taken out, so I can say that the 1916D dime has over 3K rejects, and the 1918 SF LWC has at least 187K rejects, is that correct? Report this Post to the Staff
just carl Bedrock of the Community United States 20753 Posts	Posted 03/07/2017 10:51 am I doubt that most of the amounts minted of any coin is just an approximate. And as to the 16D Mercury dime, thanks to the Chinese, the amount minted is now about 100 million. Report this Post to the Staff
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