Mercury Dime Dates & Mintmarks
All 77 issues of the series, 1916 through 1945, with the mintage the U.S. Mint reported for each. Officially the Winged Liberty Head dime, designed by Adolph Weinman, who designed the Walking Liberty half dollar the same year. No dimes at all were struck in 1922, 1932 and 1933.
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77
Date/mint combinations
1
Key dates
under 750k struck
6
Semi-keys
under 2.5M struck
3
Mints
P, D, S
| Date | Mint | Mintage | Rank | Tier | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916-D | Denver | 264,000 | 1 | Key date | — |
| 1916-P | Philadelphia | 22,180,080 | 42 | Common date | see note |
| 1916-S | San Francisco | 10,450,000 | 30 | Common date | — |
| 1917-D | Denver | 9,402,000 | 27 | Common date | — |
| 1917-P | Philadelphia | 55,230,000 | 62 | Common date | — |
| 1917-S | San Francisco | 27,330,000 | 51 | Common date | — |
| 1918-D | Denver | 22,674,800 | 44 | Common date | — |
| 1918-P | Philadelphia | 26,680,000 | 50 | Common date | — |
| 1918-S | San Francisco | 19,300,000 | 38 | Common date | — |
| 1919-D | Denver | 9,939,000 | 29 | Common date | — |
| 1919-P | Philadelphia | 35,740,000 | 54 | Common date | — |
| 1919-S | San Francisco | 8,850,000 | 25 | Common date | — |
| 1920-D | Denver | 19,171,000 | 37 | Common date | — |
| 1920-P | Philadelphia | 59,030,000 | 65 | Common date | — |
| 1920-S | San Francisco | 13,820,000 | 33 | Common date | — |
| 1921-D | Denver | 1,080,000 | 2 | Semi-key | — |
| 1921-P | Philadelphia | 1,230,000 | 3 | Semi-key | — |
| 1923-P | Philadelphia | 50,130,000 | 61 | Common date | — |
| 1923-S | San Francisco | 6,440,000 | 17 | Common date | — |
| 1924-D | Denver | 6,810,000 | 20 | Common date | — |
| 1924-P | Philadelphia | 24,010,000 | 45 | Common date | — |
| 1924-S | San Francisco | 7,120,000 | 22 | Common date | — |
| 1925-D | Denver | 5,117,000 | 14 | Common date | — |
| 1925-P | Philadelphia | 25,610,000 | 48 | Common date | — |
| 1925-S | San Francisco | 5,850,000 | 16 | Common date | — |
| 1926-D | Denver | 6,828,000 | 21 | Common date | — |
| 1926-P | Philadelphia | 32,160,000 | 53 | Common date | — |
| 1926-S | San Francisco | 1,520,000 | 5 | Semi-key | — |
| 1927-D | Denver | 4,812,000 | 12 | Common date | — |
| 1927-P | Philadelphia | 28,080,000 | 52 | Common date | — |
| 1927-S | San Francisco | 4,770,000 | 11 | Common date | — |
| 1928-D | Denver | 4,161,000 | 9 | Common date | — |
| 1928-P | Philadelphia | 19,480,000 | 39 | Common date | — |
| 1928-S | San Francisco | 7,400,000 | 23 | Common date | — |
| 1929-D | Denver | 5,034,000 | 13 | Common date | — |
| 1929-P | Philadelphia | 25,970,000 | 49 | Common date | — |
| 1929-S | San Francisco | 4,730,000 | 10 | Common date | — |
| 1930-P | Philadelphia | 6,770,000 | 18 | Common date | — |
| 1930-S | San Francisco | 1,843,000 | 7 | Semi-key | — |
| 1931-D | Denver | 1,260,000 | 4 | Semi-key | — |
| 1931-P | Philadelphia | 3,150,000 | 8 | Common date | — |
| 1931-S | San Francisco | 1,800,000 | 6 | Semi-key | — |
| 1934-D | Denver | 6,772,000 | 19 | Common date | — |
| 1934-P | Philadelphia | 24,080,000 | 46 | Common date | — |
| 1935-D | Denver | 10,477,000 | 31 | Common date | — |
| 1935-P | Philadelphia | 58,830,000 | 64 | Common date | — |
| 1935-S | San Francisco | 15,840,000 | 35 | Common date | — |
| 1936-D | Denver | 16,132,000 | 36 | Common date | — |
| 1936-P | Philadelphia | 87,500,000 | 72 | Common date | 4,130 proofs |
| 1936-S | San Francisco | 9,210,000 | 26 | Common date | — |
| 1937-D | Denver | 14,146,000 | 34 | Common date | — |
| 1937-P | Philadelphia | 56,860,000 | 63 | Common date | 5,756 proofs |
| 1937-S | San Francisco | 9,740,000 | 28 | Common date | — |
| 1938-D | Denver | 5,537,000 | 15 | Common date | — |
| 1938-P | Philadelphia | 22,190,000 | 43 | Common date | 8,728 proofs |
| 1938-S | San Francisco | 8,090,000 | 24 | Common date | — |
| 1939-D | Denver | 24,394,000 | 47 | Common date | — |
| 1939-P | Philadelphia | 67,740,000 | 70 | Common date | 9,321 proofs |
| 1939-S | San Francisco | 10,540,000 | 32 | Common date | — |
| 1940-D | Denver | 21,198,000 | 40 | Common date | — |
| 1940-P | Philadelphia | 65,350,000 | 69 | Common date | 11,827 proofs |
| 1940-S | San Francisco | 21,560,000 | 41 | Common date | — |
| 1941-D | Denver | 45,634,000 | 58 | Common date | — |
| 1941-P | Philadelphia | 175,090,000 | 74 | Common date | 16,557 proofs |
| 1941-S | San Francisco | 43,090,000 | 57 | Common date | — |
| 1942-D | Denver | 60,740,000 | 67 | Common date | 1 documented variety · see note |
| 1942-P | Philadelphia | 205,410,000 | 76 | Common date | 1 documented variety · 22,329 proofs · see note |
| 1942-S | San Francisco | 49,300,000 | 59 | Common date | — |
| 1943-D | Denver | 71,949,000 | 71 | Common date | — |
| 1943-P | Philadelphia | 191,710,000 | 75 | Common date | — |
| 1943-S | San Francisco | 60,400,000 | 66 | Common date | — |
| 1944-D | Denver | 62,224,000 | 68 | Common date | — |
| 1944-P | Philadelphia | 231,410,000 | 77 | Common date | — |
| 1944-S | San Francisco | 49,490,000 | 60 | Common date | — |
| 1945-D | Denver | 40,245,000 | 55 | Common date | — |
| 1945-P | Philadelphia | 159,130,000 | 73 | Common date | — |
| 1945-S | San Francisco | 41,290,000 | 56 | Common date | 1 documented variety · see note |
Rank 1 is the lowest business-strike mintage in the series. Tiers are assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 struck is a key date, under 2,500,000 a semi-key. The same thresholds apply to every series on this site, so tiers are comparable between them. That is a production measure, not a market judgement, and not a statement about how many survive.
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Common questions
How many Mercury dime dates and mintmarks are there?
77: 27 from Philadelphia, 25 from Denver, and 25 from San Francisco. No dimes at all were struck in 1922, 1932 and 1933, San Francisco struck none in 1921 or 1934, and Denver struck none in 1923 or 1930. Those gaps are production history, not missing rows.
Which Mercury dime has the lowest mintage?
The 1916-D, at 264,000, and nothing else in the series is close. Denver struck so few because its presses were committed to quarters that year, and the dimes circulated before collectors knew to save them. The next scarcest are the 1921-D at 1,080,000, the 1921 at 1,230,000, and the 1926-S at 1,520,000.
Why does this catalog show only one key date?
Coin Curator assigns tiers from mintage alone, using the same thresholds for every series so they stay comparable: under 750,000 struck is a key date. Only the 1916-D clears that bar here, because Mercury dime mintages are enormous by comparison with the silver dollar series, running past 200 million in the war years. That makes the tier column less informative for this series than for the Morgans, and it is the honest reason to read the Full Bands guidance instead: on most Mercury dates, difficulty is a question of strike quality rather than of how many were made.
What does Full Bands mean on a Mercury dime?
The reverse shows a fasces, and the two horizontal bands around its centre are the last detail to strike up. When both bands are fully rounded and separated, the grading services add a Full Bands designation to the label. It is a strike designation, not a grade and not a measure of preservation: a Full Bands coin can grade lower than one without. It matters because on many dates the bands almost never came up fully, so the designation, rather than the mintage, is what separates an ordinary example from a difficult one. Judge the bands from the coin photographs and confirm any Full Bands claim on the certification record.
What is the 1942/1 overdate, and why does it not have its own entry?
It is a doubled die: the obverse die took one impression from a 1942-dated hub and one from a 1941-dated hub, leaving the 1 visible beneath the 2. A Denver version exists too and is scarcer. Neither was reported separately by the Mint, so both are counted inside the 1942 and 1942-D totals. This catalog gives an issue its own entry only when the production record does, which is why the 1942 overdates are documented as varieties while the 1917 Walking Liberty obverse and reverse mintmark coins, which do have separate reported mintages, get separate entries.
Why is the 1945 Philadelphia dime considered difficult when 159 million were struck?
Because the difficulty is entirely about strike. The dies were badly worn by the end of the series and a genuine Full Bands 1945 is among the hardest strike designations in U.S. numismatics, even though an ordinary circulated example is worth little more than its silver. It is the clearest illustration in the series of why a mintage figure does not tell you how hard a coin is to find.
Why is it called a Mercury dime?
It is a misnomer. The official name is the Winged Liberty Head dime, and the winged cap represents freedom of thought rather than the Roman messenger god. The nickname stuck because the public read the wings as Mercury's, and it has outlasted the correct name by a wide margin.
Does Coin Curator publish Mercury dime values?
Not as a valuation. Key and semi-key date pages carry recent eBay sold prices: what certified examples actually sold for in the last 90 days, grouped by grade band, with the number of sales and the full range shown alongside each median. That is a record of completed sales, not a price guide, an appraisal, or a population and census count, none of which Coin Curator holds licensed data for. Common dates carry no sold data at all. Pages link to the grading services' own certification lookups and to marketplace searches so you can check current evidence yourself.
Mintage sources
Mintage figures are U.S. Mint production records, cross-checked against the published tables below on 2026-07-31. Where those tables disagree, the disagreement is disclosed on the affected page rather than resolved silently.
- CoinMintages.com, Mercury dime mintages — Business strikes and proofs listed separately. Carries no separate row for the 1942/1 overdates, consistent with them having no reported mintage.
- LandOfCoins, Mercury dime mintage — Independent table with business strikes and proofs in separate columns. Agrees on all 77 issues and all seven proof figures.
- Wikipedia, "Mercury dime" — No mintage table, but the source for the 1916-D key-date figure, the 1922/1932/1933 production gaps, and the 1942/1 being a doubled die rather than a separately reported issue.
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