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A coin lookup built on the U.S. Mint's own records, for anyone sorting a jar of change or a grandparent's coin roll.

What's here

1,130 year-by-facility production figures for cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars and small dollars, and 90 figures for individual designs (state quarters, D.C. and territories quarters, America the Beautiful quarters for 2010 and 2011, Westward Journey nickels and Presidential dollars). Every table row names the Mint document and page, or the archived Mint page, it came from. Design information runs through 2025; production figures stop at 2011.

How the counts differ

• 1900 to 1963: coins struck that calendar year. From the Mint's pamphlet Domestic and Foreign Coins Manufactured by Mints of the United States, 1792-1965. The Mint says of its figures: “The annual coinage data represent coins of both regular and commemorative designs including those reserved for assay purpose. In addition, regular designs include uncirculated and proof coins as well as those issued for general circulation. Proof coins have been minted only at the Philadelphia Mint.” (Mint report) For half dollars we subtract the commemoratives, which the same pamphlet lists one by one, and show what we took out.
• 1964 and 1965: coins bearing that date. The Mint kept the 1964 date on coins into 1966 and the 1965 date into July 1966, then published complete counts by date.
• 1967 to 1979, except 1971: coins struck that calendar year for circulation, from the annual reports, with proof coins counted separately. One exception is labelled where it appears: the report says Denver's 1970 half dollars were “Produced for inclusion in uncirculated sets with overrun for replacement of lost sets.” (Mint report)
• 1999 to 2011: circulating production that calendar year, from archived copies of the Mint's production pages. “The Coin Production figures represent all of the "circulating" coins produced by the United States Mint, including the coins sold through the numismatic bags & rolls program. These numbers do not include the "proof" or "uncirculated" quality (i.e. UNC sets) coins produced by the Mint.” (U.S. Mint) Figures for 2005 to 2011 were published rounded to hundredths of a million.

Facilities and mint marks

The Mint's tables count coins by the facility that struck them. A facility's figure isn't always a count of coins with its letter: Denver's coins of 1965 to 1967 have no D, and the 1970s reports list West Point and San Francisco production without saying how it was marked. The checker only shows a figure as matching your coin when the sources support that mark, and shows facility production separately as context.

What's missing, and why

• 1966: No calendar-year or dated table for 1966 in the reports we could download.
• 1971: The fiscal 1972 report, which would hold the 1971 calendar-year table, is not in the FRASER files we could download.
• 1980-1998: No calendar-year or dated counts in the sources we checked. The annual reports we could read for fiscal 1982 to 1988, 1990 and 1992 count coins manufactured by fiscal year, not by calendar year or date, so their figures can't be matched to the date on a coin; the text of the fiscal 1997 and 1999 reports has no calendar-year coin table either. The other reports for these years were image-only scans we didn't transcribe, or failed to download.
• 2012-2025: The Mint's current production-figures page shows a browser challenge to automated requests, and the archived copies we found don't include these years.

Rather than estimate, we leave those years blank and say so wherever they come up.

What we chose to leave out

• Prices and “worth”. There's no official price list, and value depends on condition and the current market. Grading services publish market guides, for example the third-party PCGS price guide; we have no connection to it.
• Melt value in dollars. Silver appears as metal weight from the Mint's specifications.
• Proof and collector coins, which can differ in metal and aren't in the circulating figures.
• Error coins and varieties, except the 1943 copper cents the Mint itself documents, without a count because the Mint gives none.
• Edge details and mint-mark locations the Mint pages we used don't state.
• Large dollars (Morgan, Peace and Eisenhower), and gold, commemorative and bullion coins.

How the figures were checked

The 1900 to 1979 figures come from scanned Mint documents on FRASER, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis digital library. We read each table from the page images, not from the scan's text layer, and kept a figure only when the arithmetic closed: for every year from 1900 to 1965, Philadelphia plus Denver plus San Francisco plus New Orleans equals the Mint's printed all-mints total for each coin; each branch-mint column adds to the total printed at its foot; and the commemorative table adds to its printed total. The 1964, 1965 and 1967 to 1979 rows each add to the report's total for that coin. The 1999 to 2011 figures were copied from archived Mint pages and machine-checked against them; the archived Mint pages quoted here are fetched again and checked before each build.

Specifications (metal, weight, diameter) come from the Mint's own tables and appear only for the coin years each table covers: the 1792-1965 pamphlet's silver and minor-coinage tables for coins through 1963, the fiscal 1965 report's table of coins made in 1964, and the tables of coins then being made in the annual reports for fiscal 1968 to 1970 and 1973 to 1980 (the fiscal 1971 report's table covers calendar 1970). Grams converted from the Mint's grains are labelled as our conversion. For other years we say no dated specification was found; the Mint's current specification table is shown separately because it doesn't say which years it describes.

The dataset is a versioned file (release theobverse-2026, frozen October 12, 2026). We use a checksum to detect any change to it, and changes go through the same reconciliation checks before a new release. Corrections will be listed here.

Sources

• Domestic and Foreign Coins Manufactured by Mints of the United States, 1792-1965. Bureau of the Mint, U.S. Treasury Department (Eva Adams, Director), hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended June 30, 1965. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint (FRASER file usmint_1967_annual-report.pdf). Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended June 30, 1968. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended June 30, 1969. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended June 30, 1970. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended June 30, 1971. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended June 30, 1973. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended June 30, 1974. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended June 30, 1975. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended June 30, 1976 and transition quarter. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended September 30, 1977. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended September 30, 1978. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended September 30, 1979. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended September 30, 1980. Bureau of the Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, fiscal year ended September 30, 1982. U.S. Mint, hosted by FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Mint Marks (U.S. Mint, Collecting Basics). United States Mint (archived copy).
• Coin Specifications (U.S. Mint). United States Mint (archived copy).
• Penny (U.S. Mint, Circulating Coins). United States Mint (archived copy).
• Nickel (U.S. Mint, Circulating Coins). United States Mint (archived copy).
• Dime (U.S. Mint, Circulating Coins). United States Mint (archived copy).
• Quarter (U.S. Mint, Circulating Coins). United States Mint (archived copy).
• Half Dollar (U.S. Mint, Circulating Coins). United States Mint (archived copy).
• Dollar Coins (U.S. Mint, Circulating Coins). United States Mint (archived copy).
• 2012 America the Beautiful Quarter Production (U.S. Mint). United States Mint (archived copy).
• America the Beautiful Quarters Program (U.S. Mint). United States Mint (archived copy).
• Coin Production Figures (U.S. Mint, 1999-2012 site). United States Mint (archived copy).

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Who makes it

The Obverse is published by North Coast AI LLC. It was built with AI assistance and reviewed by Bill Burkey. Our sister app is whatsmyshitworth.com.

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Figures and quotes checked against their sources on October 12, 2026.