Thursday, June 5, 2008

Mint: May 2008 (retro-blogged)

May 2008 data is posted, earlier than I expected from the Mint.

Compared to May '07, pennies are DOWN 29.4% and nickels are DOWN 71.7%. This is the 9th straight year-over-year (YoY) decline for cents, and the 6th straight YoY decline for nickels. For total mintage output, this is the 10th straight YoY decline.) Consider that May 2007 was the peak of monthly penny production for that calendar year.

The disparity between Denver and Philly mintages is declining, down to about 27% now. But for '08 nickels, the D's still outnumber the P's by 11 to 5.

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