WEEK #563 NUMISMAQUEST TIME....

[LISA B]

This weeks First and Second place winners will be picked at random…

 

The question must be answered by Saturday at midnight EST

 

QUESTION:

 

Which circulating coin (date, mint and denomination) was made in small numbers until the Mint Director’s office ordered more production to avoid creating a rarity?

 

This weeks winner will win a hard copy of The Official Red Book, A Guide Book Of United States Coin autographed by Kenneth Bressett .

 

There will also be a runner up prize given to a selected player with the correct answer.

 

REMINDER: The Numisma-Quest ends on Saturday at midnight EST. Entries after that time will not be valid. See the Trivia info post for more details

 

[Abraham_Iam]

The best answer my resources can come up with is: The 1883 (P) Shield Nickel…

 

The Red Book doesn’t include any mint marks until 1912... so Philadelphia by default.

[dadams]

1883, Philadelphia, Shield 5C

[JIM F.]

1964-D Kennedy half dollar

[Collector1-migration]

This question is next to impossible to answer correctly nonetheless I'll give it a shot. My answer are the 2012-S Washington Quarters (2012, San Fransisco and 25C).

Initially mintages were set at 1.4 million qtrs. per design but later decided “to mint to demand for the product.” These coins are apparently the first time the "S" mint-mark has shown up on circulating coins for decades. I don't know whether or not the US Mint thought that this coin would become a "rarity" especially with a relatively high mintage of 1.4 million but in either case they believed that demand would be much higher than 1.4 million pieces. Probably wrong but I can't wait to see the right answer.

[sc7000]

[font:Arial Black] [/font] 1931 s Bufalo nickel (thumbs u

[CyberspaceVoid]

OK, just a guess ... 1960 (P) small date cent?

[LISA B]

QUESTION:

 

Which circulating coin (date, mint and denomination) was made in small numbers until the Mint Director’s office ordered more production to avoid creating a rarity?

 

Answer: 1931-S nickel

 

This weeks winner [font:Century Gothic]SC7000[/font] has won a hard copy of The Official Red Book, A Guide Book Of United States Coin autographed by Kenneth Bressett.

 

No runner up…

 

Thank you for playing and please stop by this Friday for the PMG Numisma-Quest question