Mint: June 2008 (retro-blogged)

And the June '08 data is here.

Year-over-year info... pennies are DOWN 37.5%, and nickels are DOWN 66.0% since June 2007.

Mintmark disparity is stable at 28% in favor of Denver, but Denver is still wildly outproducing Philly in the nickels and dimes.

I'm starting to wonder if the spike in half dollars reported in December 2007 were actually for coins dated 2008. Reports on TreasureNet.com forums indicate that 2008 halves do exist and have been found by coin hunters, but the Mint has not reported any halves made in the 2008 calendar year. If true, it means that the Mint's production figures for a given year might include coins dated for the previous or following years. For example, the 2007 mintage data may include 2006 and 2008 coins. This spells trouble for numismatists who rely on Mint statistics to determine a coin type's rarity.