CoinsBuffalo Nickels, 1913–1938 → 1916 Buffalo Nickel

1916 Buffalo Nickel

Philadelphia Mint
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Why this coin matters

The 1916 Buffalo Nickel was struck at the Philadelphia Mint with a recorded mintage of 63,497,466 coins — the 62nd-lowest of the 64 circulation-strike issues in the buffalo nickel series, and 72% of the 88,690,466 buffalo nickels the Mint produced across all facilities in 1916.

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 buffalo nickel, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1916 Buffalo NickelPhiladelphia63,497,466
1916-S Buffalo NickelSan Francisco11,860,000
1916-D Buffalo NickelDenver13,333,000

The 1916 in its series

Sources

Mintage figures: United States Mint (Annual Report of the Director of the Mint), Royal Canadian Mint records, and — for the 1935 banknote issue — Bank of Canada printage records as published in the Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Government Paper Money, 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.