I don't get it. I could understand 2009 pennies being in short supply due to their fancy reverse designs, but they're not. 2009 quarters maybe, because of their reverse designs, but they're actually out there if not quite as common as the pennies. But nickels and dimes are literally indistinguishable from other years but for their dates. Yet, a 2009 nickel or dime in the wild is like a unicorn. I recently searched ten rolls of dimes and got three silver Roosies and one full silver Canadian, but yet not a single 2009. Mintage-wise, they're not RARE rare, though they are somewhat scarce compared to nearby years. I've only ever found one. With nickels, I've searched hundreds of rolls and only found five 2009's. I've found more old Buffaloes than 2009-Ps, and the numbers are tied for 2009-Ds. Did people really hoard 2009 coins en masse from the beginning?
They are pretty rare considering most years enough coins are minted for all of them to be equally distributed to the entire population of the country. (330 million off the top of my head.) Think of it this way, with Jefferson nickels. 2006 D for example - 809,280,000 (A higher mintage year) Enough for everyone to get 2.45 nickels... if you could split them. 2009 D - 46,800,000 minted. Did the math. Everyone would get 0.1418 nickels. Less were circulating to begin with. So the ones that do get pulled early just create more scarcity for collectors who pull from circulation. At the same time, so little were minted, that I guess you could say that you've come across your fair share of 2009 Ds... 0.1418
The mint stopped minting them in March (I think) of that year! That's why there are so few out there!! Combined that with the fact collectors were aware of low mintages and they cobbled them up!!! (Gobbled up a few myself)!!! Just plain hard to find, but not impossible!!! Good luck!
Well you made me pull out my little jar of 2009 Nickels. I have 46 of them I have found in the last year or so from CRH. 16 D's and 30 P's , which makes sense since I live onthe east coast. Lord knows how many I missed before I was stashing them away. I never liked CRH dimes, so I don't have any of those. I really don't think they will ever be worth much, but I keep them now anyway. I also have a couple rolls of 2009 pennies in UNC condition around here someplace.
This is a portion of the UNC pennies I got in that collection dump I got last month. I still need to go through them for errors / varieties. These are mostly 80’s through 2000’s. I’m sure I saw some 2009’s in there. The older Unc from the 60’s I already pulled and stashed!
True. But how many people go through hundreds of rolls of circulated nickels? It seems like every bank teller I talk with makes it seem like there are only at most a few people who ever do CRH at that bank. Sometimes it's only one other person, and they don't always do nickels. Why did they stop in March? Yeah, for some reason I have had a hard time getting into dimes myself. They're just tiny and kind of hard to examine, if you don't get any rim-obvious silver. (And even at that, sometimes the rims don't make silver obvious, especially if they're tarnished!) How does one acquire this knowledge?!
@RomaniGypsy There have been articles in the numismatic press, plus CoinTalk has had threads mentioning it in the past. They stopped minting them in March partly because the Mint felt that there were enough out there from past years and they weren't needed.
At that time there was a glut of coinage in circulation and an economic downturn - remember the auto company bailouts and the banks and cash for clunkers etc?
I have 6 unopened 2009 bank rolls. 4 pennies and 2 nickels. I hope my two little terrorists granddaughters (heirs) enjoy having them. Thanks for the post.
i have noticed the same...2008 and 2009 are very scarce in cents , nickels and dimes..i do not regularly search quarters or halves..
i prefer dimes, in the last batch of 60.00 in dimes (12 rolls) found 2 1/2 clash and 4 full clash (meaning both sides, heavy) and tons of struck through grease, collar clashes and unc older dates..in cents after searching over 200.00 in the past year, i have yet to find one obverse clash, (whilst have found 10 or 15 reverse clashes) and maybe a handful of nickel clashes, dimes are the best in my book for errors!!
https://www.coinnews.net/2009/04/29/us-mint-halts-2009-nickels-and-dimes-production/ this tells the story!!
Using the latest Mint circulating coin production figures for 2009 Jefferson nickels, 39.36 million from Denver and 39.84 million from Philadelphia were struck, for a total of 79.20 million coins. In contrast, 640.6 million nickels were minted last year. That is an astonishing 87.6 percent reduction. The last time a U.S. nickel had such a low combined mintage was in 1951.
and yet, by nunismedia prices, both p and d mints are the same price in ms-67 as all other dimes in that era (90's till 2009" so do not understand wht=y rolls are so much here is the dime info:
2009 cents because of the 4 designs, are lower mintage than any before or after. the presidency is the hardest to find of them, but not too difficult. 2009 nickels, and dimes are low mintages compared to the nickels and dimes before or after them. The 2009-P Jefferson Nickel had a final mintage of 39,840,000 and the 2009-D Jefferson Nickel had a mintage of 46,800,000. 2009-P Roosevelt Dime had a mintage of 96,500,000 and the 2009-D had a mintage of 49,500,000. The D dime is much harder to find, I've found Ps, and I figured it would be hard because I'm east coast and it is, but it's even less likely I find one. For quarters it's 2012. the first half of the year were really low mintage, Chaco Culture P or D, both are 22 million. Acadia 21,606,000. Hawaii Volcanoes, and Denali are heading back to normal mintages but the first 3 designs of 2012 are hard to come across, then or now, El Yungue, Chaco Culture, and Acadia. Actually there are a lot that are hard from 2010-2012, that will take some searching to find, 30 million mintages. To be honest, I have them all from mint sets, (BUT the mint did satin finish for the mint sets from 2005-2010 so it's not quite the same for the 2009s, the cents of 2009 in the mint set were 95% copper too, so they aren't the business strike zincolns at all. two different animals completely). The only one I've not found in circulation is the 2009 D dime. I'm sure if I focused on dimes for a few months and searched like a box a week or so I'd find one at some point though, it's how I found the the nickels, and the 2009D was harder just because I'm east coast.
