Hello, Mr. Bowers:

I have been a coin collector for over 50 years now and have always enjoyed reading your articles and have purchased several of your books. I do havea question that I have never seen addressed, much less answered, in the coin collecting community, and that relates to the mintages of coins with no mint marksthat occurred from 1965 into the mid-1980s.

All the coins from 1965 to 1967 were minted without mint marks but I am wondering if the Mint ever reported the individual mintages among Philadelphia,Denver, and San Francisco, and also if they ever reported the actual number of coins minted during each of those years. I believe 1964 coins were minted into1966, and 1965 dated coins from very late in 1965 into the middle of 1966. For the cents, from 1975 through I think 1986, they were minted at all four mints,but those minted in San Francisco and West Point were struck without mint marks, so they are indistinguishable from the Philadelphia cents. Did the Mint keeprecords on the numbers of cents struck at West Point and San Francisco?

And the 1982 cents represent the biggest confusion of all, as there were seven different varieties that year, large date and small date, and copper vs. zincplated coins. Were individual mintage records ever kept for these coins?

Finally, were any records kept for the 1960 small date and large date coins for Philadelphia and Denver? And are there any accurate records for the proofsilver and uncirculated San Francisco bicentennial coins? I have never seen any breakdowns of the mintages in the Red Book or any other books, including theones you have authored. If there are no accurate numbers available, are there at least any reasonable estimates of these unknown mintages?

I would appreciate any information you could share with me. Thank you.

To read the U.S. Mint Reports on the Newman Portal, see:
U.S. Mint Reports (https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/51)