CoinsBuffalo Nickels, 1913–1938 → 1937 Buffalo Nickel

1937 Buffalo Nickel

Philadelphia Mint
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Why this coin matters

The 1937 Buffalo Nickel was struck at the Philadelphia Mint with a recorded mintage of 79,480,000 coins — the 63rd-lowest of the 64 circulation-strike issues in the buffalo nickel series, and 77% of the 102,941,000 buffalo nickels the Mint produced across all facilities in 1937.

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 1937 buffalo nickel, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1937 Buffalo NickelPhiladelphia79,480,000
1937-S Buffalo NickelSan Francisco5,635,000
1937-D Buffalo NickelDenver17,826,000

The 1937 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.