Mint: August 2008 (retro-blogged)

U.S. Mint coin production figures for August:

January to August totals:
Cents: 3.58 B (B is for Billions)
Nickels: 407.76 M (M is for Millions)
Dimes: 644.0 M
Quarters: 1.7378 B
Half Dollars: 3.4 M
Dollars: 362.0 M
Total Coins: 6.73156 B

By subtracting out the Jan-July data, I can isolate the August-only data as follows:
Cents: 481.2 M
Nickels: 76.8 M
Dimes: 114.0 M
Quarters: 183.0 M
Half Dollars: none
Dollars: 6.44 M
Total Coins: 861.44 M
Average Coin Value: 8.38 cents

Comparing to August 2007 data, I get the following Year-Over-Year (YoY) totals:
Cents: down 33.8%
Nickels: down 11.9%
Dimes: down 47.3%
Quarters: down 28.9%
Total Coins: down 36.4%