The latest United States Mint coin mintage or production figures are out and the biggest revelation is the reported numbers for the newly released Northern Mariana Islands Quarters. The quarter-dollars are now officially the scarcest of all 2009 quarters, or of any of the 50 State Quarters for the matter.
72,800,000 Northern Mariana Islands quarters were produced, with 35.2 million of those struck in Philadelphia and 37.6 million at Denver. That accounts for just 88.6 percent of the prior US Virgin Islands quarter production run. But for the starkest contrast, it represents just 42.2 percent of the mintage totals for this year’s first issued DC quarter.
Prior to today’s revelation, collectors had focused on the 2009-D American Samoa Quarter as the scarcest of the coins ...
Full Article: Northern Mariana Islands Quarter Most Scarce - CoinNews
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