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There are a LOT of 1964s - someone posted mintage numbers sorted by least to most recently. The mint must have worked 24/7/365 in 1964!

Nickel sorting

Postby Z00 » Mon May 07, 2012 1:38 am
A few of us have been sorting nickels in various ways. The most common seems to be by decade. I was doing this and thought about it and decided that if I am going to the trouble of looking at the date anyway, why not break them completely down. So I bought a couple of boxes of nickel tubes and started breaking them down by date and mint.

Down the road the fact that the composition will likely change, Gresham's law says that many of these will disappear and may command a premium when not easily found in circulation.
Or my grand children will have a good start on the coin business.

I have taken the mintage figures for Jefferson's and loaded them into a database and sorted by mintage. Here is the result:

2,630,030 1950 D
3,514,000 1939 D
4,105,000 1938 S
5,376,000 1938 D
6,630,000 1939 S
7,776,000 1951 S
7,888,000 1955 P
9,716,000 1949 S
9,796,000 1950 P
11,300,000 1948 S
13,560,000 1946 S
13,938,000 1942 D CuNi
15,294,000 1943 D
17,088,000 1958 P
19,210,900 1953 S
19,496,000 1938 P
20,460,000 1951 D
20,572,000 1952 S
21,640,000 1944 S
24,720,000 1947 S
27,248,000 1959 P
28,552,000 1951 P
29,384,000 1954 S
30,638,000 1952 D
32,309,000 1944 D
32,900,000 1942 S
35,216,000 1956 P
36,498,000 1949 D
37,158,000 1945 D
37,822,000 1947 D
38,408,000 1957 P
39,690,000 1940 S
39,840,000 2009 P
43,445,000 1941 S
43,540,000 1940 D
44,734,000 1948 D
45,292,200 1946 D
46,644,000 1953 P
46,800,000 2009 D
47,684,050 1954 P
49,789,000 1942 P CuNi
53,432,000 1941 D
55,416,000 1960 P
57,900,000 1942 P Silver
58,939,000 1945 S
59,878,600 1953 D
60,652,000 1949 P
63,988,000 1952 P
67,222,940 1956 D
73,640,100 1961 P
74,464,100 1955 D
89,348,000 1948 P
91,227,880 1968 D
95,000,000 1947 P
97,384,000 1962 P
100,396,004 1968 S
104,060,000 1943 S
106,884,000 1971 P
107,325,800 1967
117,183,060 1954 D
119,150,000 1944 P
119,408,100 1945 P
120,075,000 1969 S
120,615,000 1939 P
136,131,380 1965
136,828,900 1957 D
156,208,283 1966
160,738,240 1959 D
161,116,000 1946 P
168,249,120 1958 D
176,485,000 1940 P
178,851,645 1963 P
181,772,000 1975 P
192,582,180 1960 D
202,036,000 1972 P
202,807,500 1969 D
203,265,000 1941 P
229,342,760 1961 D
229,920,000 2010 D
238,832,004 1970 S
260,640,000 2010 P
271,165,000 1943 P
276,829,460 1963 D
277,373,000 1974 D
279,840,000 2008 P
280,195,720 1962 D
292,355,000 1982 P
297,313,422 1977 D
313,092,780 1978 D
316,144,800 1971 D
325,867,672 1979 D
344,880,000 2004 D keelboat
345,600,000 2008 D
351,694,600 1972 D
361,405,000 1973 D
361,440,000 2004 P medal
361,819,140 1986 D
364,801,843 1981 D
366,720,000 2004 P keelboat
367,124,000 1976 P
371,499,481 1987 P
372,000,000 2004 D medal
373,726,544 1982 D
383,040,000 2003 D
384,396,000 1973 P
391,308,000 1978 P
394,080,000 2005 P ocean
399,552,000 1992 P
401,875,300 1975 D
406,084,135 1993 D
410,590,604 1987 D
411,120,000 2005 D ocean
412,076,000 1993 P
414,960,000 2011 P (through November)
436,496,678 1991 D
441,840,000 2003 P
448,320,000 2005 P bison
450,565,113 1992 D
459,747,446 1985 D
463,188,000 1979 P
466,640,000 1997 D
470,972,000 1997 P
487,680,000 2005 D bison
502,323,448 1980 D
515,485,380 1970 D
517,675,146 1984 D
523,200,000 2011 D (through November)
536,726,276 1983 D
536,883,483 1986 P
539,280,000 2002 P
561,615,000 1983 P
563,964,147 1976 D
570,842,474 1989 D
571,680,000 2007 P
585,376,000 1977 P
593,004,000 1980 P
601,752,000 1974 P
614,104,000 1991 P
626,160,000 2007 D
627,680,000 2001 D
635,380,000 1998 D
647,114,962 1985 P
657,504,000 1981 P
661,636,000 1990 P
663,771,652 1988 D
663,938,503 1990 D
675,704,000 2001 P
688,292,000 1998 P
691,200,000 2002 D
693,120,000 2006 P
715,762,110 1994 D
722,160,000 1994 P
746,769,000 1984 P
771,360,000 1988 P
774,156,000 1995 P
809,280,000 2006 D
817,736,000 1996 D
829,332,000 1996 P
846,240,000 2000 P
888,112,000 1995 D
898,812,000 1989 P
1,028,622,762 1964 P
1,066,720,000 1999 D
1,212,000,000 1999 P
1,509,520,000 2000 D
1,787,297,160 1964 D

ZenOps wrote:I believe all coins were hoarded around the 1965 to 1972 era.

Copper pennies were in very short supply in 1972. Nickel was $8 per pound in 1970, which at the time meant that 20 pounds of pure nickel, would buy 40 barrels of oil. A $100 box of Canadian nickels in 1970 had extreme purchasing power. Nowadays, it much more like 20 pounds of nickel buying 1 and 1/2 barrels of oil.

And then Nixon changed the rules in 1971 for all metals. In many ways, I believe Nixon changed the rules - because he saw that he (and the US) was on the losing path, so Nixon forced the world off metals as money literally - at gunpoint.

Coinage is usually produced to demand, just like Silver Eagles and Maples are today. The higher the demand, the higher the price, but also the much higher the mintage. Was the demand for overall coinage so high in 1964? According to my Grandfather, yes - it was. And according to him, during WWII - noone hoarded silver war nickels - they hoarded the nickel five cent pieces. It ended up being folly for anyone who hoarded silver or nickel five cent pieces, because you would have gone twenty years before its value would surpass face (1944 to 1964 for either silver or nickel, where you could have invested the money in *anything* else, you probably would gained so much more)

Circumstance and perception of value is totally based on the time and conditions you are living under.