In unit totals and keeping with practice, 2018 Lincoln cents won among denominations with more than 7.8 billion made - even as it costs the U.S. Mintages for the 2018 Native American dollars total 1.4 million from Denver and 1.4 million from Philadelphia for a combined 2.8 million coins - down from the previous year’s release which ended with splits of 1.54 million from Denver and 1.82 million from Philadelphia for 3.36 million coins. The prior year’s release ended with splits of 2.9 million from Denver and 1.8 million from Philadelphia for a combined 4.7 million coins. Mintages for the 2018 Kennedy half-dollar total 6.1 million from Denver and 4.8 million from Philadelphia for a combined 10.9 million coins - the most since 2001 and more than doubling those made in 2017. The two coins are now made only for numismatic products. Mintages of Kennedy half-dollars and Native American dollars are smaller than other coins because they are no longer produced for circulation - Federal Reserve Banks do not order them from the U.S. Last year, the Denver Mint made 6,284,980,000 coins and the Philadelphia Mint made 6,840,434,000 coins. Mint facilities in Denver and Philadelphia manufacture all of America’s coins for commerce. Here is a summary of annual coin production totals in 2018 against 2017: US Mint Annual Coin Production (2018 vs 2017) coin production hit bottom at just over 3.5 billion coins. That said, the pace in 2018 was 269.9% quicker than in 2009 when U.S. Mint beefed up operations and hired more workers as demand for coinage ran higher for a sixth straight year and drove production above 17 billion coins. In 2018, production facilities in Philadelphia and Denver shipped over 13.1 billion coins to Federal Reserve Banks for distribution into the economy, marking decreases of 11.7% from the more than 14.8 billion coins made a year earlier and 18.1% from the over 16 billion coins struck in 2016.Ĭontrast the latest annual figure to 2015 when the U.S. coins slowed for a third year in a row after peaking to a 14-year high, the latest manufacturing figures from the United States Mint show. A CoinNews photo of a 2018-P Block Island National Wildlife Refuge Quarter

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