Out of pure curiosity. The single coin with the highest mintage

On the forum, there is a question about the coin with the lowest mintage in your collection, which I have made an entry.
Thinking about it, brought my question as per my heading.
The coin must have the highest mintage for only one date.
Example below
United Kingdom 2 New Pence 1971. Mintage 1,454,856,250 (+350,000 proof)
I expect the USA to pulverise that number plus a few other countries.

USA - 1 cent 2016
4,698,000,000 (!)

USA - 1 cent 2000 D
8,774,220,000 (!)

More than that, from this 2014 topic >
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic34598.html#p292661

'United States of America 1 Cent
1982 (Large Date) 10,712,525,000'

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42.html

Citeer: "ZacUK"​ More than that, from this 2014 topic >
​https://en.numista.com/forum/topic34598.html#p292661
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​'United States of America 1 Cent
​1982 (Large Date) 10,712,525,000'
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​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42.html

Why do Americans need so many cents?

Citeer: "druzhynets"​

Citeer: "ZacUK"​ More than that, from this 2014 topic >
​​https://en.numista.com/forum/topic34598.html#p292661
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​​'United States of America 1 Cent
​​1982 (Large Date) 10,712,525,000'
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​​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42.html

​Why do Americans need so many cents?

​To keep certain congress members in their seats.

Citeer: "druzhynets"​

Citeer: "ZacUK"​ More than that, from this 2014 topic >
​​https://en.numista.com/forum/topic34598.html#p292661
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​​'United States of America 1 Cent
​​1982 (Large Date) 10,712,525,000'
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​​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42.html

​Why do Americans need so many cents?

​Because we have no sense.

I think some of the 1980s US cents had over 10 billion minted across all the mintmarks in a single year.

EDIT:

Yeah here we go, 1982 almost 17 billion minted

Are they still producing roughly 10 billion pennies a year? This is pretty insane in my opinion. The Cent was already the smallest unit a century ago and the inflation-adjusted value of that coin is now 25 times as much. Analogous to that one would expect the Quarter to be the lowest denominated coin right now.

But okay, let's allow the dime as well to make rounding easier. Even homeless people don't bend over for coins anymore, only people like ourselves do.

As the Americans are maniacs of cleanliness, haven't you ever eaten in a restaurant with the waitress decked out as in Supertramp's Breakfast in America who vacuums under the pillows of the side table while you eat in order to show you that everything is dead clean, they recast cents to show that they are all new all beautiful !
My therory, untif proven otherwise

I don't know about the homeless, but i will always bend down to pick them up, any way I need the exercize. I fill quart jars with them, and regularly redeem them for about $6 a quart.
The actual value is very small, yes, but, between the sales tax, and the insistence of retailers to price everything ending in a 9, or two 9s, cash transactions almost always conclude with cents.
Also "do you want your penny?" is a way for a sales clerk to ask for a tiny tip, and I always say no, if asked.

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Citeer: "ZacUK"​ More than that, from this 2014 topic >
​​​https://en.numista.com/forum/topic34598.html#p292661
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​​​'United States of America 1 Cent
​​​1982 (Large Date) 10,712,525,000'
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​​​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42.html

​​Why do Americans need so many cents?

​​Because we have no sense.

​*ba-dum tssss*


I think it would also be interesting if we counted by type instead of by date; some Chinese cash coins have estimated populations in the tens, if not hundreds of millions; since they were often cast in large batches over the course of several decades of an emperor's reign without change.

Can someone add up all the US Lincoln Memorial cents' mintages?

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That's hell a lot of coins! In my opinion, a waste of metal...

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​That's hell a lot of coins! In my opinion, a waste of metal...
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​132,910 tonnes!

Citeer: "neilithicman"​​132,910 tonnes!

​There is more than 1 million ton in my excel sheet ...
Roughtly 400 billions of coins multiplied by ~3g = 1200 billions of grams = 1.2 millions of tons

Citeer: "Frenchlover"​

Citeer: "neilithicman"​​132,910 tonnes!

​​There is more than 1 million ton in my excel sheet ...
​Roughtly 400 billions of coins multiplied by ~3g = 1200 billions of grams = 1.2 millions of tons

​My mistake, I multiplied by .000311 instead of .00311, so it's 1,329,100 tonnes

Even though the weight of pennies was reduced to 2.5g since 1982, we obtain more than 1 millions tons of copper that should be compared to the yearly world production of copper that is nowadays a bit more than 20 millions tons . The question is what was the percentage of recast coins in this million tons of pennnies ?

Citeer: "Frenchlover"​Even though the weight of pennies was reduced to 2.5g since 1982, we obtain more than 1 millions tons of copper that should be compared to the yearly world production of copper that is nowadays a bit more than 20 millions tons . The question is what was the percentage of recast coins in this million tons of pennnies ?

​Today’s cents are copper plated zinc, so take that into account.

Citeer: "Frenchlover"​Even though the weight of pennies was reduced to 2.5g since 1982, we obtain more than 1 millions tons of copper that should be compared to the yearly world production of copper that is nowadays a bit more than 20 millions tons . The question is what was the percentage of recast coins in this million tons of pennnies ?

​US pennies were recast by the Mint?

I know there are people who hoard pre-1982 pennies for copper value but never knew the US Mint recycled their coins.

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Citeer: "Frenchlover"​Even though the weight of pennies was reduced to 2.5g since 1982, we obtain more than 1 millions tons of copper that should be compared to the yearly world production of copper that is nowadays a bit more than 20 millions tons . The question is what was the percentage of recast coins in this million tons of pennnies ?

​​US pennies were recast by the Mint?
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​I know there are people who hoard pre-1982 pennies for copper value but never knew the US Mint recycled their coins.

​The mint recycles mutilated coins sent to them by private entities and banks in exchange for cash. Thats it unless there is some other program I’m unaware of.

I never realised when I posted the question, that it would turn into a marvelous discussion, with some outstanding information.
Long may it continue.

Citeer: "Roublizer"​​Today’s cents are copper plated zinc, so take that into account.

​You're right, even though there are much more coins since 1983, the total weight of copper is peanuts in comparison to before 1983. So no necessity of recasting.
Cost of Zinc : 1.3€/kg
Cost of Copper : 3.8 €/kg

The coin that amazes me with its mint numbers is the one rupee coin from India minted in 1840 with 398,554,000 a number that exceeds US production for years. I do not think any US coins had over 100 million minted until the 1900's with the one cent coin. And if you add the other types also minted in the same year the number of one rupee coins from 1840 would be over 750 million unless I am mistaken.

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​I recently saw this old sketch by Comedy Central, which reminded me of this thread!

Ass Pennies - Uptight Citizens Brigade

(Although, the amount of pennies that have gone up his arse is a tiny number compared to the total mintage of Lincoln Memorial cents alone, so the chances of his brother's change having been up there is fairly miniscule!)

Cents are not recast. In fact, it is the cent that has the status of being against the law to melt.

Citeer: "Oklahoman"​Cents are not recast. In fact, it is the cent that has the status of being against the law to melt.

​Yes, for normal people it is forbidden to do so, but the financial authorities can withdraw notes and coins from circulation, demonetize them, and recycle the material. Cash centers of banks play a role in that.

Citeer: "druzhynets"​

Citeer: "ZacUK"​ More than that, from this 2014 topic >
​​https://en.numista.com/forum/topic34598.html#p292661
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​​'United States of America 1 Cent
​​1982 (Large Date) 10,712,525,000'
​​
​​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42.html

​Why do Americans need so many cents?

​The copper-plated zinc cent has the shortest service life of any modern coin. By its own design, it self destructs. The copper and zinc together form a galvanic cell. In the presence of an electrolytic environment such as water, soil, or human sweat, the copper and zinc corrode each other. Bronze cents from 1981 have fared much better than zinc cents from 1983.

Even worse, cents only flow one direction in commerce, from merchant to customer, rarely returning. There are few avenues left, if any, to spend a cent. It costs time or money to convert them into higher denominations. In practice, cents have become single use items, effectively disposable and useless once obtained. Every house in America has a jar full of cents that may never be used twice.

I have a bag full of the dam things, here in the UK. No one wants to take them back to the USA. Costs more than they are worth I suppose.
As I am not going to the USA in the short term, I suppose I am stuck with them.
They are just boarding space

I wonder how many coins the Chinese pump out each year. 1,403,500,365 pcs means 1 per person, 14,035,003,650 pcs means 10 per person. How many coins each do we need?

Citeer: "COINMAN1"​I have a bag full of the dam things, here in the UK. No one wants to take them back to the USA. Costs more than they are worth I suppose.
​As I am not going to the USA in the short term, I suppose I am stuck with them.
​They are just boarding space

​separate the copper ones for their copper value!

Citeer: "CassTaylor"​
​I know there are people who hoard pre-1982 pennies for copper value but never knew the US Mint recycled their coins.

​who would even do that?