1911-P Lincoln Wheat Cent

Common date

A high-mintage Philadelphia issue.

Mintage

Business strikes: 101,176,054
Mint: Philadelphia (no mintmark)
Mintage rank: 76 of 140
Proofs struck: 2,411

Rank 1 is the lowest business-strike mintage in the series. Mintage is what the Mint produced, not what survives. Cents circulated harder and longer than any other denomination, were spent rather than saved, and were melted and lost in numbers nobody recorded. On this series in particular, mintage is a poor guide to how hard a coin is to buy.

Reading the figure

Among the 50 Philadelphia issues in the series it is the 14th smallest. Of the 117,874,054 struck across all mints in 1911, this issue accounts for 86%. That is 25 times the San Francisco figure for the same year. The 1911 split ran Philadelphia 101,176,054, Denver 12,672,000 and San Francisco 4,026,000.

Every sentence above is computed from the mintage table on this page, not asserted separately.

About this figure

Published tables disagree on this figure by 678 coins, and the difference does not correspond to the reported matte proof mintage as it does for the surrounding years. The business-strike figure shown here comes from the source that reports proofs separately; the discrepancy appears to be a transcription error in one reference, and which one is not established.

Scarcity tier

Common date

Assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 is a key date, under 2,500,000 is a semi-key.

This is a reproducible label derived from the mintage column, not a market valuation and not a Coin Curator price opinion. The same thresholds apply to every series on this site. Several dates are far harder or far easier to obtain than their mintage implies; where that is true, it is stated above.

Mintage explains less here than in any other series. Mintage explains less about this series than about almost any other. Read the full note on the series page.

What to check before buying

Nothing about this date calls for a check beyond the ones that apply to any certified coin.

And for any certified coin

Verify the certification number on the grading service’s own lookup rather than from a photograph of the label, match the listing images to the certification record including grade and any variety attribution, look for cleaning, compare the mintmark against published photographs of the genuine issue, and read the return policy before buying. The grading guide covers each of these in full.

Coin Curator does not grade, authenticate, or appraise coins, and publishes no price or population data. These are verification steps, not a valuation.

Verify a certification number

Look a 1911-Pcertification number up on the service’s own site. A photograph of a label proves nothing.

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Common questions

How many 1911-P Lincoln wheat cents were minted?

The Philadelphia Mint struck 101,176,054 1911-P Lincoln wheat cents for circulation. That is the 76th lowest business-strike mintage of the 140 date and mintmark combinations in the series.

Is the 1911-P Lincoln wheat cent a key date?

Coin Curator labels it a common date, assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 struck is a key date and under 2,500,000 is a semi-key. The same thresholds are used for every series on this site, so the tiers are comparable between them. That label describes production, not market value or how hard the coin is to find today. A high-mintage Philadelphia issue.

What should I check before buying a 1911-P Lincoln wheat cent?

Verify the certification number on the grading service's own lookup page, match the listing photographs to the certification record, check for cleaning, and compare the mintmark shape and position against published photographs of the genuine issue.

Why do sources give different mintage figures for the 1911-P?

Guides for this coin

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Vintage Guide

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PCGS vs NGC vs ANACS: Which Grading Service for Coins?

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Mintage sources

Mintage figures are U.S. Mint production records, cross-checked against the published tables below on 2026-08-01. Where those tables disagree, the disagreement is disclosed on the affected page rather than resolved silently.

LandOfCoins, Lincoln wheat cent mintage — Business strikes and proofs in separate columns. Used as the business-strike figures here.
Wikipedia, Lincoln cent mintage figures — A separate article from the main Lincoln cent page, which carries no table. Its Philadelphia figures for 1909-1915 add that year's matte proofs into the business-strike total.
USA Coin Book, Lincoln wheat cent — Consulted to break disagreements. Rounds the 1953 and 1954 figures to the nearest million, so it is a tiebreaker rather than a primary source.

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