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1952-S Lincoln Wheat Cent

San Francisco Mint
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Why this coin matters

The 1952-S Lincoln Wheat Cent was struck at the San Francisco Mint with a recorded mintage of 137,800,004 coins — the 83rd-lowest of the 140 circulation-strike issues in the lincoln wheat cent series, and 13% of the 1,070,705,004 lincoln wheat cents the Mint produced across all facilities in 1952.

The register's oddest trailing digit: four coins past 137,800,000, recorded to the single cent.

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 1952 lincoln wheat cent, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1952 Lincoln Wheat CentPhiladelphia186,775,000
1952-S Lincoln Wheat CentSan Francisco137,800,004
1952-D Lincoln Wheat CentDenver746,130,000

The 1952-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.