Interesting Image for 1914-D Lincoln Cent Fans

BuffaloIronTail

I found this on the Newman Numismatic Portal (Thanks, Roger). It's the official Record of Coin Die Usage report from the Denver Mint for Cent production in 1914.

All Cents were coined on June 16, 1914. The mintage figure that we're all used to (1,193,000) seems to be a little short (12,284 coins short).

The official 1914-D Lincoln Cent mintage is reported as 1,205,284. I kinda wonder what happened to those "stray" 12,284 coins.

Pete

Coinosaurus

Great to see folks looking at original records. We scanned literally everything at the National Archives in Denver (related to the Denver Mint), well over 150,000 pages.

I do not know for sure, but for the 1914-D cent mintage I suspect the 1,193,000 figure was taken from the Mint Director's annual report, which was well distributed. The archival record noted above hasn't been seen - until now.

BuffaloIronTail

You never know what will turn up. I had fun perusing it.

Pete

BlindedByEgo

I opened this thread hoping to see a fan made of 1914 D Lincoln Cents. Thanks anyway.

ricko

Another mystery from the files.... The answer may be in there somewhere....Cheers, RickO

cheezhed

Very interesting

dbldie55

What is the trick to find these on the portal? Nothing I am searching seems to find them.

Smudge

Good indication of how long to expect a die to last. Lots to learn there.

1Mike1

I'm wondering why they list 4 die numbers each but total 6 for obverse and 7 for reverse. Do you think its because they simply ran out of room to list the die numbers?

BuffaloIronTail

@1Mike1 said:
I'm wondering why they list 4 die numbers each but total 6 for obverse and 7 for reverse. Do you think its because they simply ran out of room to list the die numbers?

I don't know, Mike. I wondered the same thing. Perhaps the die numbers were not known for some reason lost to history.

Pete

1Mike1

@BuffaloIronTail said:

@1Mike1 said:
I'm wondering why they list 4 die numbers each but total 6 for obverse and 7 for reverse. Do you think its because they simply ran out of room to list the die numbers?

I don't know, Mike. I wondered the same thing. Perhaps the die numbers were not known for some reason lost to history.

Pete

I was reading some info from someone quite a while back and they came up with five sets of dies. Their information/research is most likely incomplete. It's interesting to see the variations in number of dies used and also variation in mintage numbers.