US Mints during war times

I guess this could make sense in either the US or world coins. I was going through some foreign coins earlier today and noticed more D, S and P mint marks than I realized. Most people know that the US mint produces coins for a number of other countries but their war time activity (I think) was even broader (Australia for example).

Does anyone have an easy to access list of what other countries / denominations the US mint has produced by year?

Thinking it would be cool to put together a mint products by year set for one of the war time years / mints.

 

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That's a pretty neat idea! Unfortunately, I don't know which countries the US minted coins for during WWI and WWII. Don't forget the Spanish-American War. We probably didn't mint any for the Philippines/Spain during that one.

 

Something like this?
https://libertycoinservice.com/wp-c...s-checklist-foreign-coins-by-us-mint-type.pdf

 

https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mu...tured-by-mints-united-states/composition/4824


They’ve done a lot more foreign coins than most people realize

 

Those are the lists!!!! You guys are awesome. A lot more in there than I was thinking. Will need to consider if I could pull something off.

 

Good luck and Godspeed
Would make a helluva set if you could do it.

 

It's definitely a LOTTTT longer than most people realize for the overall lists, but one of the most interesting sets in my opinion

 

Bumping an older thread. I think I’m going to take a shot at completing sets for each US mint for 1942-1945.

Probably will never finish even a single year / mint combo but should be fun to try. Don’t really care about grade so we’ll see how it goes. Will probably take a week or so to even see what I have already and what I need.

 

Best of luck Joe.......

 

This will sound crazy to many of you but in my life I have never sought out and bought even a single coin. Every coin I own was bought because it caught my eye at the time.

As such, with this search involving buying specific coins, how do you suggestion going about it? Is eBay the answer? I think on Numista a lot of people trade but I’m not signed up there. I guess maybe LCS’s have foreign but I’ve never really looked.

any advice is appreciated.

I think my first buy is going to be the Belgian Congo 2 Francs from 1943. Turns out it’s a very cool coin.

 

Very cool! Hexagonal and with a spelling mistake too

 

If you're looking for raw coins that will be your widest source

 

-148 issues not counting the standard US issues. Some confusion around the Dutch territories issues so maybe 3-6 less than that. Also there’s a Saudi gold coin listed as a token that I don’t know it it will count or not.

 

Funny how they tell us we went to steel cents in 1943 to conserve copper for the war effort and yet at the same time the 3 Australian mints are turning out large copper pennies. Go figure.

 

It's almost as if the USA did A LOT more fighting and providing supplies in the war than Australia which the USA also helped protect

 

Quick Google search says the Bombay India mint produced 6 million half penny and 9 million pennies in 1942 and 1943 for Australia.

 

The USA was producing coins for Australia as well in Denver and SF. Over 1 million American troops were in Australia which was over 10 percent of their total population.

Australia was literally one of the worst if not the worst countries for someone to try and make the copper argument when it was being carried by the Allied side of the war.

 

Excuse me, genius, but Australia was in the thick of it since Pearl Harbor. Read about Darwin. If it weren't for us and the British their mints would have been minting Yens by 1943. Get a clue before you go shooting off. We needed everybody pulling on the same rope for this one, not going in a different direction.

 

I know the mint produced coins for the Netherlands during the war years for use in Suriname and Curacao, plus at home. The issue has a P mint mark and the kicker for the colonies issue, a palm tree privy mark, both on the reverse. I think they also minted for the Netherlands east indies. The 1944 Belgium 2 franc coin would be of interest as the US mint struck those from unused steel penny blanks! The US mint has been a major player in the coinage of Panama as well. And I earlier years, Cuba, whose silver pesos were made with the same blanks used for peace dollars.

 

The Dutch coins are challenging between the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, Curaçao and Suriname.

Made first purchases this weekend toward the collection.