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BDE 20th Century Business Types (NGC Only)
We have something in common if you are interested in type-collecting U.S. coins. I become engrossed in my country’s history, lore, legend, and beauty when learning the stories behind each type of coin. Coin types provide a backdrop, a context, and a timeline for the events that unfolded from the Revolutionary War to the Pandemic of 2020. The good, the bad, and the ugly: it is all there.
This set is my baby, my bread-and-butter set, the set I tirelessly research, searching for the best available coins, and I have documented and presented each coin carefully. Each coin description has information about the type, such as history and mintage figures, and details about my specific coin. Ironically, my 20th Century Proof type set won “Best Presented Set” in 2019, which I spent a fraction of the time preparing. I spent a lot of effort completing this set with uncirculated grades, including the high-relief double eagle, and may still have a few upgrades to go.
I built my first 20th-century type set in the mid-1990s in a Dansco album, which probably cost me around $300 (including the album). 20th-century coins became a passion of mine, especially the American Renaissance designs. After upgrading every coin at least once, I am finally satisfied with the results.
This set starts with a nice, solid turn-of-the-century type set with a fiery-red Indian cent, richly toned Liberty nickel, a blast-white Barber dime, quarter and half, and a proof-like Morgan $1. The historically significant Barber series transitioned the country in coinage, culture, and literally to a new century.
At the heart of the set are the coins designed in the spirit of the American Renaissance. They include the first Lincoln “VDB” cent, two Buffalo nickel varieties, three Standing Liberty quarter varieties, a Mercury dime, a Walking Liberty half, two Peace dollar varieties, a wartime steel Lincoln cent, and a silver Jefferson nickel. This selection of coins defines “20th Century Types” and highlights American coinage at its best.
Next is the presidential coinage: a Lincoln wheat cent, a Jefferson nickel, a silver Roosevelt dime, a silver Washington quarter, a Franklin half, and two Kennedy silver half-dollar varieties. These types have probably been the most widely collected coins anywhere in binders, folders, coffee cans, slabs, and who knows what else!
The non-gold part of the set rounds out with my least favorite of the 20th-century types: post-1964 clad coinage. But although all these types are common, some are uncommon in high grades. Finding a clad Ike in MS67 or a Kennedy in MS68 became a quest. In fact (surprisingly to me), I found early high-grade Kennedy half-dollars in high grades are fiercely sought after and scarcely found at reasonable prices compared to all other coins in the set! That is what makes even the common coins of this set a challenge.
Finally, the gold coins were made until FDR took the country off the gold standard in 1933. There are two parts to the U.S. gold coinage from 1900 to 1933: Liberty and American Renaissance designs, which resulted from Teddy Roosevelt’s coin beautification initiative. Liberty designs had been around since the late 1830s and were ready for a change. Like the Barber series, it ended when a new wave of beauty and elegance previously unseen on coins started. Prominent artists of the time designed gold coins honoring both Liberty and the Native Americans and then ascended to legendary status. The final coin in the set is the iconic high-relief double-eagle designed by sculptor Augusts Saint-Gaudens.
What types are the rarest? I added all the production numbers for each business strike type for the entire century. The results are listed from the rarest (the high-relief $20) to the most common (the Memorial cent). The mint made over 28.5 million Lincoln Memorial cents for every high-relief Saint-Gaudens double eagle!
12,367 G$20 Saint Gaudens HR (1907)
294,456 G$10 Indian NM (1907-1908)
1,006,473 $1 Peace HR (1921)
1,383,824 G$2.5 Liberty (1900-1907)
5,296,968 G$20 Saint Gaudens NM (1907-1908)
7,250,261 G$2.5 Indian (1908-1929)
11,000,000 $1 Bicentennial silver (1976)
11,000,000 25c Bicentennial silver (1976)
11,000,000 50c Bicentennial silver (1976)
11,082,908 G$10 Liberty (1900-1907)
12,253,200 25c SLQ T1 (1916-1917)
12,844,882 $1 Ike silver (1971-1974)
13,770,179 G$5 Liberty (1900-1908)
14,078,066 G$5 Indian (1908-1929)
15,650,139 G$10 Indian (1908-1933)
28,479,000 1c VDB (1909)
29,545,650 G$20 Liberty (1900-1907)
38,434,000 5c Buffalo T1 (1913)
64,961,695 G$20 Saint Gaudens (1908-1933)
73,353,000 25c SLQ T2b (1925-1930)
95,369,108 50c Barber (1900-1915)
141,163,600 25c SLQ T2a (1917-1924)
166,571,000 $1 Morgan (1900-1921)
173,354,993 25c Barber (1900-1916)
189,570,806 $1 Peace (1922-1935)
220,565,274 $1 Bicentennial (1976)
381,228,564 5c Liberty (1900-1912)
415,302,807 10c Barber (1900-1916)
429,509,450 50c Kennedy (1964)
465,540,347 $1 Ike (1971-1978)
465,844,455 50c Franklin (1948-1963)
485,320,240 50c WLH (1916-1947)
521,873,248 50c Bicentennial (1976)
848,895,006 50c Kennedy sil-clad (1965-1970)
865,791,100 5c Jefferson silver (1942-1945)
904,884,452 $1 SBA (1979-1999)
948,328,786 1c Indian (1900-1909)
1,093,838,670 1c Wheat steel (1943)
1,175,464,771 5c Buffalo T2 (1913-1938)
1,669,902,855 25c Bicentennial (1976)
2,130,591,481 50c Kennedy clad (1971-1999)
2,676,523,880 10c Mercury (1916-1945)
3,720,277,801 25c Washington (1932-1964)
4,430,940,000 25c Washington statehood (1999)
6,595,617,673 10c FDR (1946-1964)
24,694,801,441 1c Wheat (1909-1958)
35,575,871,664 25c Washington clad (1965-1998)
39,286,528,917 5c Jefferson (1938-1999)
52,976,980,630 10c FDR clad (1965-1999)
353,134,172,890 1c Memorial (1959-1999)
This is my favorite set overall, but my 20th-century proof-only set contains some of my favorite coins. I took the photographs.
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