2003 Coins

Tootawl · February 8, 2003 1:28PM

Has anyone seen any 2003 coins in circulation yet?

LucyBop · February 8, 2003 1:29PM

2003? Your kidding? My Calender just changed to 1957.

Tootawl · February 8, 2003 1:31PM

<< <i>2003? Your kidding? My Calender just changed to 1957. >>

...just as long as the days on the 1957 calendar match up with 2003.

airplanenut · February 8, 2003 1:35PM

I have my IL quarters... my bank has gotten in rolls of them (I actually got mine when looking through a cash register where I get my hair cut... I just got 4 from them- they use my bank).

Jeremy

PS- They look great! If I submitted myself, I would probably get a few rolls, one of the coins I have looks clean enough to be a 68, and it was taken from a roll and put into a drawer

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richbeat · February 8, 2003 1:44PM

I saw my first Illinois quarter (2003D) last Tuesday, and today I received a 2003D cent in change at the grocery store.

oldcameoproofsguy · February 8, 2003 1:48PM

I've seen some of the cents from the Denver mint. Many are PL and some even have nice CAM devices almost like they were struck from retired proof dies. I'll be looking for the ultimate example and keep it because someday it might bring in 1963 PR70DCAM money!!! LOL!

morganbarber · February 8, 2003 11:13PM

Aside from the Ill. Quarter, I haven't seen any. I am always very excited when a new date comes out to see if there are any undiscovered error varieties.

Conder101 · February 9, 2003 1:03AM

Lucy, your calender swapped over to 1957 last year as well, and my guess is that at midnight you will be celebrating the incoming year of 1957 in grand fashion.

clackamas · February 9, 2003 1:32AM

Yep, Got a 2003 penny in change earlier this week.

DRG · February 9, 2003 2:19AM

I received a 2003 D cent in change almost 3 weeks ago in the middle of January.

I was really surprised.

Schmitz7 · February 9, 2003 4:25AM

Has anyone seen 2003 nickels? I hear they are still debating on the change of the 5 cent coin for this year.

jdimmick · February 9, 2003 4:28AM

Only seen the illinois quarter so far, its usually late feb before the first cents start popping up in this area, then nickels, then dimes.

Geoman · February 9, 2003 4:45AM

Just read an article in Numismatic News about how the US Mint has decided to wa more important to get out the Sac's and Kennedy's Halves, as well as the commerative coins, before they started minting the common (cents, nickels, dimes) for circulation for 2003. But it sounds like the penny's are starting to come out finally. No reports yet of either nickels or dimes being found with 2003 on them.

cladking · February 9, 2003 5:35AM

Circulating coin production is generally pretty consistent throughout the year. Half
dollars until this year have mostly been produced at the end of the year and there
is often a drop off in July for maintenance and vacations. Quarters now are only made
for ten weeks before a design change. Apparently the mint is still hoping to change
the nickel this year so maybe we'll have two designs for the year.

Cam40 · February 9, 2003 6:36AM

I didnt know we were all geared up for a new 5c design.I,ve heard like talk about it in the past two years.
Is it true that first year designs always get horded?I know we have a billion 2000P/D Sacs out there and you hardly ever see them in circulation.

Cam40 · February 9, 2003 6:50AM

I too got a `03 Abe in change last week.
Went to the bank for rolls.Got em home and all 10 rolls were `02 Ds .lol
Oh well.Cherried about a roll of PLs from 8 of the rolls.Maybe two are 67-68.

Whats your earliest date Zincoln PL.
I,m sure I have some `99 Ds `00 Ds Maybe a `98 D.

Are these PLs mainly in the 1990s?The 80s Lincolns seem crudely made in comparison.
So far in the new century, quailty for Lincolns looks to have improved.

cladking · February 9, 2003 6:58AM

The earliest common PL zinc cent is the '84. The Philly appears in about 1% of mint sets
and the Denver in about 2%. They get increasingly common throughout the 80's with big
jumps in '86 and '88. Some of the '90's dates are up over 10% PL gems with PL being the
norm.

The copper memorials also appear as PL but some of these are very scarce in gem.

richbeat · February 9, 2003 4:44PM

Mint production figures so far (through January):

Cent: Philadelphia 126,000,000 Denver 264,000,000 Total Cents 390,000,000
Nickel: P 2,160,000 D 3,840,000 Total Nickels 6,000,000
Dime: P 37,000,000 D 50,000,000 Total Dimes 87,000,000
Quarter: P 196,800,000 D 199,800,000 Total Quarters 396,600,000
Half: P 2,500,000 D 2,500,000 Total Halves 5,000,000
Sac Dollars: P 3,080,000 D 3,080,000 Total Sacs 6,160,000

Total All Coins: 890,760,000

Since nickels have been struck, I'm guessing that any design change will be pushed back to 2004 at the earliest. We haven't had a design change in mid year (or any part of the year, for that matter) since 1938. I don't think it'll happen now.

richbeat · February 9, 2003 4:48PM

Sorry for the jumbled appearance of the numbers. I had it spaced out better than that and didn't know that was going to happen when I posted.

Tootawl · February 10, 2003 12:23AM

I did the spaces thing too in a thread a month or so ago. You need to add dots, dashes, or any other non-space character to keep the alignment straight.

airplanenut · February 10, 2003 2:15AM

I'm thinking a lot of MS69s might come out this year... I got some incredible examples from a roll from a change drawer, so from a mint set, or even carefully removed from a roll, should yield stellar results.

Jeremy

SemperFI · February 10, 2003 2:20AM

Those numbers for the Kennedy Halves look exact...do you think they will mint only a small number again this year. Looks same with Sac $'s.

richbeat · February 10, 2003 4:21PM

toot:

Thanks for the advice; that didn't occur to me. I'll remember next time.

SemperFI:

I was under the impression that the mint production figures listed on their website were figures for coins that were struck for circulation, and did not include mint sets and bag and roll sales. However I'm not sure about that now, at least for the halves and Sacs. Would anyone know? Does Coin World or any other publication break it down?

richbeat · February 10, 2003 4:48PM

On page 32 of the July 2002 issue of COINage (article: "Out of Circulation?"), this is what Ron Meyer had to say: "For the immediate future, officials said, the Mint would cease making 'golden dollars' for banks, retailers and others to use in commerce, but it would produce a relatively small number--about 10 million--for collectors. The 10 million would be in addition to the 6 million Sacagawea dollars turned out in the first three months of 2002 for general circulation."

Mint production figures for 2002 (website) show a total (Philly and Denver combined) of 7,597,610 Sacs struck. The 10 million mentioned above for collectors is not included. That's where my line of reasoning was coming from.

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