What's The Most Recent Circulation Coin Of Numismatic Value

You can't compare a coin from 30+ even 50+ years ago with todays coins when it comes to mintage numbers

todays coin can be bought with the click of a button from the U.S mints website in sets,rolls eazy to get

A low mintage coin many years ago was sought out by looking for them or buying from dealers or someone with bank connections or someone that pulled them from circulation to resell say a 50-d Jefferson nickel with low mintage numbers.

Versus today alot ( tens of thouands + ) of people ordered 2009 nickels from the mint in sets and rolls in high grade..

Both the 09 dimes and nickels were carrying a very high premium when they first came out, but they have simmered down quite a bit since then. It had to do with being released so late in the year and in lower quantities.

Some of the 09 pennies were similar. I remember when the birthplace penny was out and nobody could find them in circulation yet, I was out on a road trip driving down I-80 through Ohio and at a rest stop I got a brand new BU log cabin penny as part of my change. I asked the girl if she had more and she sold me a whole roll of them for 50c. What a find at the time!

It's funny, I was making the same trip a month ago and I stopped at a similar rest stop and again got brand new change. Makes me wonder if these interstate rest stops get the newest change sooner than other places.

and I thought that finding 1 2009 d in 2 boxes of nickels was good!

Actually, NO ONE ordered 2009 Nickel rolls from the Mint.
You can't order Nickels like that from the Mint. The last time you were able to do so was with the "Westward Series" a few years back.
And ALL of the Nickels from the "Sets" that you speak of, are SATIN FINISH, not Business Strikes.
And it's the biz. strikes that we're referring to with these '09 P & D's.

And I DO agree.......you can't compare todays "low mintage" with 50 years ago!
When they mint ONE BILLION coins per year on average....and then, out of the blue, they mint only 39 million P's and 46 million D's for a total of 86,640,000......... THAT'S A H.U.G.E. DIFFERENCE.
50 years ago we had less than half of our country's population too.....so, it's all reletive to me.

Not to chance the subject, but reading just carls post brought back some memories. In 72 when the double dies came out there where 4 or 5 of us collecting coins and that summer we must have gone through plenty of penny rolls. We never found a dd, but I did get a clipped penny out of a roll.
Thanks Carl!

Here's the count from the last 50 rolls I went through - 41 2009 nickels. That's almost 1 per roll. The only year I am sure I got more of is 1964 (and we all know how common those are). Most look uncirculated, but there are a few that have seen some use.

So, if there is really interest in these, I'll be more than happy to auction them off.

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but a 1996w Roosevelt dime is pretty cool. It only came in that year's mint set, but it is a business strike, or at least as far as I know. I doubt you will find any in circulation, but I bet they are out there as the sets are broken up and mistakenly spent.