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1916 Mercury Dime

Philadelphia Mint
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Why this coin matters

The 1916 Mercury Dime was struck at the Philadelphia Mint with a recorded mintage of 22,180,080 coins — the 42nd-lowest of the 77 circulation-strike issues in the mercury dime series, and 67% of the 32,894,080 mercury dimes the Mint produced across all facilities in 1916.

First year of Adolph Weinman's winged Liberty design.

A full collector's note for this issue — survival, strike character, and what to check before buying — is on the writing schedule; the figures above are the permanent record.

Mintage: the 1916 mercury dime, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1916 Mercury DimePhiladelphia22,180,080
1916-S Mercury DimeSan Francisco10,450,000
1916-D Mercury DimeDenver264,000

The 1916 in its series

Sources

Mintage figures: United States Mint, Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, cross-checked across independent published references. Specifications: United States Mint coin specifications.

The mintage is the only number that never changes. This is where it lives.