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1941-D Lincoln Wheat Cent

Denver Mint
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Why this coin matters

The 1941-D Lincoln Wheat Cent was struck at the Denver Mint with a recorded mintage of 128,700,000 coins — the 79th-lowest of the 140 circulation-strike issues in the lincoln wheat cent series, and 12% of the 1,108,078,000 lincoln wheat cents the Mint produced across all facilities in 1941.

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 1941 lincoln wheat cent, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1941 Lincoln Wheat CentPhiladelphia887,018,000
1941-S Lincoln Wheat CentSan Francisco92,360,000
1941-D Lincoln Wheat CentDenver128,700,000

The 1941-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.