Coin Price List - README file
peterson at milano.UUCP
peterson at milano.UUCP
Fri Mar 13 09:36:20 AEST 1987
As a side-effect of other work, I have produced a file of prices
for U.S. coins, based upon three separate coin price lists for 1980.
I do not intend to update this list, and have no access to more
recent or complete data. I am offering this data on the assumption
that someone may find the data interesting or useful, and that some
data is better than none. The remainder of this posting is the
README file explaining the contents of the file; the next posting
will be the actual data file itself.
The file "coins80" contains a list of the prices of various U.S.
coins. This file describes the contents of the "coins80" file. Each
line of the "coins80" file describes one coin. There are 2397 lines,
each an average of 97 characters long. Each line is a set of fields.
The fields are separated by semicolons. The field contents are:
Field Contents
1 Face Value of Coin
2 Type of Coin
3 Date and Mint Mark
4 Design of Coin
5 Comments (if any)
6 Mintage
7 Price for Almost Good Condition
8 Price for Good Condition
9 Price for Very Good Condition
10 Price for Fine Condition
11 Price for Very Fine Condition
12 Price for Extra Fine Condition
13 Price for Almost Uncirculated Condition
14 Price for Uncirculated Condition
15 Price for Proof Condition
The entire file is sorted, first by Face Value, then by Date and
Mint Mark.
The file is a result of scanning 3 coin books from 1981. The results
were then reformatted and checked. About a month was needed to
correct scanning errors.
Field 1. Face Value of Coin
This field is mainly to aid in sorting the file. There are ten
possible values for this field: 01, 02, 03, 05, 10, 20, 25, 50, 100,
and 300. The 300 value is used for proof sets.
Field 2. Type of Coin
This field is the name of the type of coin. The following table gives
the combinations of field 1 and 2 which occur, and the number of each
combination.
Number Field 1 Field 2
---- --- -----------------
435 01 Penny
14 02 Two-Cent Piece
53 03 Three-Cent Piece
106 05 Half Dime
238 05 Nickel
418 10 Dime
7 20 Twenty-Cent Piece
398 25 Quarter Dollar
420 50 Half Dollar
236 100 Dollar
26 100 Trade Dollars
45 300 Proof Sets
Notice that Proof Sets have a "face value" of 300; both Nickels and
Half Dimes have a value of 05 and both Dollars and Trade Dollars have
a value of 100.
Field 3. Date and Mint Mark
There are 460 different values for this field. The dates run from
1793 to 1980. If a mint mark is present, it is separated from the
date by a space. Mint marks include D (333), S (493), O (177), CC (55)
and P (26). There are 1312 entries with no mint mark.
Field 4. Subtype of Coin
This field lists the name of the design of the coin. The following
combinations of Field 2 and Field 4 exist.
Number Type SubType
---- ---- -------
2 Penny Braided Hair
91 Penny Coronet
47 Penny Draped Bust
4 Penny Flowing Hair, Chain
3 Penny Flowing Hair, Wreath
4 Penny Flying Eagle
57 Penny Indian Head
12 Penny Liberty Cap
59 Penny Lincoln Memorial
142 Penny Lincoln, Wheat Ears
14 Penny Turban Head
14 Two-Cent Piece
27 Three-Cent Piece Nickel
26 Three-Cent Piece Silver
12 Half Dime Draped Bust
2 Half Dime Flowing Hair
14 Half Dime Liberty Cap
78 Half Dime Liberty Seated
68 Nickel Indian Head or Buffalo
114 Nickel Jefferson
34 Nickel Liberty Head
22 Nickel Shield
16 Dime Draped Bust
31 Dime Liberty Cap
76 Dime Liberty Head
122 Dime Liberty Seated
80 Dime Mercury
93 Dime Roosevelt
7 Twenty-Cent Piece Liberty Seated
5 Quarter Dollar Bicentennial
6 Quarter Dollar Draped Bust
28 Quarter Dollar Liberty Cap
75 Quarter Dollar Liberty Head
122 Quarter Dollar Liberty Seated
38 Quarter Dollar Standing Liberty
124 Quarter Dollar Washington
6 Half Dollar Bicentennial
14 Half Dollar Draped Bust
4 Half Dollar Flowing Hair
35 Half Dollar Franklin
38 Half Dollar Kennedy
73 Half Dollar Liberty Head
123 Half Dollar Liberty Seated
65 Half Dollar Liberty Walking
62 Half Dollar Turban Head
10 Dollar Bicentennial
26 Dollar Draped Bust
20 Dollar Eisenhower
3 Dollar Flowing Hair
47 Dollar Liberty Seated
99 Dollar Morgan or Liberty Head
24 Dollar Peace
7 Dollar Susan B. Anthony
26 Trade Dollars
45 Proof Sets
Field 5. Comments (if any)
Some coins (538 of the 2397 listed) have comments indicating special
properties of the coin or variants. The most common comments are:
39 Normal Date
24 Small Date
22 Large Date
13 Copper-Nickel Clad
12 Silver
11 Arrows
9 No Arrows
9 Small Letters
9 Large Letters
Field 6. Mintage
Mintage is generally given as a large integer, with embedded commas to
indicate thousands, millions, and billions. These values range from
400 to 5,505,275,000. Missing or unknown values are indicated by a
field containing a single dash "-". Some coins are known to have only
a few existing pieces; these are marked as "(Rare)" in the Mintage
field.
Fields 7 to 15. Price Fields
The price fields contain the prices for each coin for each condition.
Missing data is represented by a "-" field value. Values range from
0.05 to 520000.00 (1804 Draped Bust Dollar in Proof condition). Values
increase with condition.
Field Condition Minimum Maximum Number Average
----- --------- ------- ------- ------ -------
7 Almost Good 0.05 8550.00 2010 64.61
8 Good 0.05 8600.00 2055 95.19
9 Very Good 0.05 10400.00 2069 123.28
10 Fine 0.05 14500.00 2101 159.36
11 Very Fine 0.05 25400.00 2135 263.27
12 Extra Fine 0.05 43200.00 2173 434.67
13 Almost Uncirc 0.07 80000.00 2212 806.27
14 Uncirculated 0.05 400000.00 2382 3563.76
15 Proof 0.05 520000.00 2382 4845.14
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James Peterson
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