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1930-S Lincoln Wheat Cent

San Francisco Mint
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Why this coin matters

The 1930-S Lincoln Wheat Cent was struck at the San Francisco Mint with a recorded mintage of 24,286,000 coins — the 34th-lowest of the 140 circulation-strike issues in the lincoln wheat cent series, and 11% of the 221,801,000 lincoln wheat cents the Mint produced across all facilities in 1930.

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 1930 lincoln wheat cent, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1930 Lincoln Wheat CentPhiladelphia157,415,000
1930-S Lincoln Wheat CentSan Francisco24,286,000
1930-D Lincoln Wheat CentDenver40,100,000

The 1930-S 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.