Owner Comments:
Lyman Allen #9.05 (KM #181) - Mintage: 137,208,000 minted by the US Mint in Denver
General
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The 1945D 10 Centavo piece has the highest mintage of any US/Philippine era coin, and is one of only two issues exceeding a mintage of 100,000,000 (the other being the 1944S One Centavo which was minted in both 1944 and 1945, but only dated 1944). The high mintage of coins in 1944 and 1945 was necessary since virtually all previously issued coinage had disappeared during the Japanese occupation. Because of the high demand, dies were used well beyond their normal life and pieces struck from highly eroded dies are very common.
High mintage figures often imply common coins, but also provide the opportunity for some highly collectable varieties and plentiful mint errors!
This Coin
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This example is a normal die variety struck on a planchet with a small curved clip at 4:00.
Date acquired: 7/14/2005 (Raw coin)
Date graded: 9/24/2019 (Self submitted to NGC)
Rev. 10/5/2019