Mint: December 2007 (retro-blogged)

The Mint has posted numbers for all of 2007. Although I expect these numbers to change, and I will monitor to see if they do, here's what happened in December: The Mint effectively shut down! I was expecting a slowdown like the Mint usually does at the end of each year, but not this dramatic. Only 1,200,00 pennies minted, no nickels, and only 500,000 dimes! Quarters were low but still comparable to recent months. Surprisingly the Mint made a last-minute run of 3,400,000 half dollars, almost doubling the '07 totals.