mintage
noun
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all thecoinsmade at amintor during aparticularperiod:
Thecoinsare beingreleasedin alimitedmintage of 1500 each.
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theprocessof makingcoins:
the mintage ofdollarcoins
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It will be the same thing with us if we play the fool with ourmintageand our currency.
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Therefore, the obverse date does not always reflect the actual date ofmintagebut rather a restriking off of older obverse coin die designs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Its companion, the even rarer 1796 half dollar (ranked 72) had amintageof only 934.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Due to the incredibly highmintage(over 20 million coins were produced), these coins have no investment value whatsoever.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Themintageincluded 50,000 gold coins, 400,000 silver coins, and 750,000 nickel-copper coins.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, problems began to arise from themintage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The totalmintagefor 1796 was 79,920, which amounts to an approximate 62% reduction from the previous year's total.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Coins of that date have a rarity not reflected in themintageof 668,000 as few entered commerce.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As was typical for the period,mintagewas very low, just 26,928.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The lowestmintagewas 1985, when 2.1 million coins were issued.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Only issued in 1942, it had amintageof 20.7 million.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The respectivemintagewas of 31,800,000 (1941), 241,000,000 (1942), 71,000,000 (1943), and 29,600,000 (1944).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Mintageof the series never surpassed 40,000, with none produced in 1804.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He was a founder of one of the world's largest companies involved in editing postage stamps, and coinsmintage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The mintages have varied from year to year as themintageis determined by the host club.
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