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1931-D Lincoln Wheat Cent

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Why this coin matters

The 1931-D Lincoln Wheat Cent was struck at the Denver Mint with a recorded mintage of 4,480,000 coins — the 9th-lowest of the 140 circulation-strike issues in the lincoln wheat cent series, and 18% of the 24,742,000 lincoln wheat cents the Mint produced across all facilities in 1931.

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 1931 lincoln wheat cent, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1931 Lincoln Wheat CentPhiladelphia19,396,000
1931-S Lincoln Wheat CentSan Francisco866,000
1931-D Lincoln Wheat CentDenver4,480,000

The 1931-D 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.