Mintage
- Business strikes
- 43,090,000
- Mint
- San Francisco (S)
- Mintage rank
- 57 of 77
Rank 1 is the lowest business-strike mintage in the series. Mintage is what the Mint produced, not what survives: millions of silver dollars were melted under the Pittman Act of 1918 without the dates being recorded.
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.
Full Bands is a strike designation, not a grade
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 to check before buying
- 1Verify the certification number on the grading service's own lookup page, not on the listing. A photograph of a label is not verification.
- 2Match the coin in the listing photographs to the coin described on the certification record, including the grade and any variety attribution.
- 3Look for cleaning: unnatural brightness, fine parallel hairlines in the fields, and a flat, lifeless surface under angled light.
- 4Check the mintmark shape and position against published photographs of the genuine issue. Added and altered mintmarks are the most common silver dollar alteration.
- 5Read the seller's return policy before bidding or buying, and confirm it covers authenticity and grade disputes.
Coin Curator does not grade, authenticate, or appraise coins, and publishes no price or population data. These are verification steps, not a valuation. Read the grading guide.
Verify a certification number
If a 1941-Sis offered as certified, look the number up on the grading service’s own site and confirm the date, mintmark, grade, and any variety attribution match the listing. A photograph of a label proves nothing on its own.
Each service publishes its own guarantee with conditions and exclusions. Compare PCGS, NGC and ANACS.
Find a 1941-S for sale
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Common questions
How many 1941-S Mercury dimes were minted?
The San Francisco Mint struck 43,090,000 1941-S Mercury dimes for circulation. That is the 57th lowest business-strike mintage of the 77 date and mintmark combinations in the series.
Is the 1941-S Mercury dime 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 common San Francisco date.
What should I check before buying a 1941-S Mercury dime?
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.
Related dates
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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