mintage
IPA: mˈɪntʌdʒ
noun
- The process of minting coins.
- The batch of coins minted at one time.
- Coins collectively; specie.
- The fee paid to a mint.
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Examples of "mintage" in Sentences
- · 1864 Gem Uncirculated-Lightly toned, low mintage Civil War date.
- Approximately 150 1864 proof coins were minted without the L; the combined 1864 mintage is the lowest for the type)
- The mintage limit for the 2010 American Veterans Disabled for Life Silver Dollar is set at 350,000 coins across all product options.
- The 1805 date, the second lowest mintage of the type, is priced higher all dates (except 1802) as VF30 or finer, and is uncommon in Mint State.
- By 1814, an economic recession and an associated decline in silver and gold deposits drastically reduced the mintage of precious metal coinage.
- For reasons unexplained, the arrows were removed (again) for the 1875 mintage, and half dollars continued in that style through the end of the series in 1891.
- The low mintage 1844 issue was hoarded by the late Frank Ross, who then publicized the rarity of the date, though the mintage is the fifth smallest of the series, not the smallest.
- The previously circulated coin mintage value was figured using the following formula. ((number of coins produced) melted) * (the coins silver content in ounces per individual coin) Note: the 1.7 billion float of silver is conservative, If you wish to increase the amount of silver coins you feel were melted in the Pittman Act, or from the Hunt
- The previously circulated coin mintage value was figured using the following formula. ((number of coins produced) melted) * (the coins silver content in ounces per individual coin) Note: the 1.7 billion float of silver is conservative, If you wish to increase the amount of silver coins you feel were melted in the Pittman Act, or from the Hunt Brothers incident, please then add the total manufactured in circulation coins for all the other countries besides the US.
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