Wheat Penny Mintages

Mintage, as it applies to wheat pennies refers to the number of a given wheat penny that was made in a particular year at a US Mint facility. All wheat pennies (and every coin, in general) have a mintage number for each year that wheat penny was produced.

Wheat penny mintages can help influence the value of wheat pennies. Generally speaking (and everything else being equal), the higher the mintage, the more coins are available and the lower the potential value. The lower the mintage, the fewer coins are available and the higher the potential value. It doesn't always work out this way, but it's a general rule of thumb..

If you want to see how many of a given wheat penny were made in that particular year at that particular mint facility, just look up the year and mint mark of the wheat penny you are wondering about. I have listed the mintage next to it.

Here are the wheat penny mintages, according to the Official Red Book:

1909 VDB: 27,995,000
1909-S VDB: 484,000
1909 (without VDB): 72,702,618
1909-S (without VDB): 1,825,000
1910: 146,801,218
1910-S: 6,045,000
1911: 101,177,787
1911-D: 12,672,000
1911-S: 4,026,000
1912: 68,153,060
1912-D: 10,411,000
1912-S: 4,431,000
1913: 76,532,352
1913-D: 15,804,000
1913-S: 6,101,000
1914: 75,238,432
1914-D: 1,193,000
1914-S: 4,137,000
1915: 29,092,120
1915-D: 22,050,000
1915-S: 4,833,000
1916: 131,833,677
1916-D: 35,956,000
1916-S: 22,510,000
1917: 196,429,785
1917-D: 55,120,000
1917-S: 32,620,000
1918: 288,104,634
1918-D: 47,830,000
1918-S: 34,680,000
1919: 392,021,000
1919-D: 57,154,000
1919-S: 139,760,000
1920: 310,165,000
1920-D: 49,280,000
1920-S: 46,220,000
1921: 39,157,000
1921-S: 15,274,000
1922-D: 7,160,000
1923: 74,723,000
1923-S: 8,700,000
1924: 75,178,000
1924-D: 2,520,000
1924-S: 11,696,000
1925: 139,949,000
1925-D: 22,580,000
1925-S: 26,380,000
1926: 157,088,000
1926-D: 28,020,000
1926-S: 4,550,000
1927: 144,440,000
1927-D: 27,170,000
1927-S: 14,276,000
1928: 134,116,000
1928-D: 31,170,000
1928-S: 17,266,000
1929: 185,262,000
1929-D: 41,730,000
1929-S: 50,148,000
1930: 157,415,000
1930-D: 40,100,000
1930-S: 24,286,000
1931: 19,396,000
1931-D: 4,480,000
1931-S: 866,000
1932: 9,062,000
1932-D: 10,500,000
1933: 14,360,000
1933-D: 6,200,000
1934: 219,080,000
1934-D: 28,446,000
1935: 245,388,000
1935-D: 47,000,000
1935-S: 38,702,000
1936: 309,632,000
1936-D: 40,620,000
1936-S: 29,130,000
1937: 309,170,000
1937-D: 50,430,000
1937-S: 34,500,000
1938: 156,682,000
1938-D: 20,010,000
1938-S: 15,180,000
1939: 316,466,000
1939-D: 15,160,000
1939-S: 52,070,000
1940: 586,810,000
1940-D: 81,390,000
1940-S: 112,940,000
1941: 887,018,000
1941-D: 128,700,000
1941-S: 92,360,000
1942: 657,796,000
1942-D: 206,698,000
1942-S: 85,590,000
1943: 684,628,670
1943-D: 217,660,000
1943-S: 191,550,000
1944: 1,435,400,000
1944-D: 430,578,000
1944-S: 282,760,000
1945: 1,040,515,000
1945-D: 266,268,000
1945-S: 181,770,000
1946: 991,655,000
1946-D: 315,690,000
1946-S: 198,100,000
1947: 190,555,000
1947-D: 194,750,000
1947-S: 99,000,000
1948: 317,570,000
1948-D: 172,637,500
1948-S: 81,735,000
1949: 217,775,000
1949-D: 153,132,500
1949-S: 64,290,000
1950: 272,635,000
1950-D: 334,950,000
1950-S: 118,505,000
1951: 284,576,000
1951-D: 625,355,000
1951-S: 136,010,000
1952: 186,775,000
1952-D: 746,130,000
1952-S: 137,800,004
1953: 256,755,000
1953-D: 700,515,000
1953-S: 181,835,000
1954: 71,640,050
1954-D: 251,552,500
1954-S: 96,190,000
1955: 330,958,200
1955-D: 563,257,500
1955-S: 44,610,000
1956: 420,745,000
1956-D: 1,098,201,100
1957: 282,540,000
1957-D: 1,051,342,000
1958: 252,525,000
1958-D: 800,953,300

Highest Mintage Wheat Penny 1944: 1,435,400,000
Lowest Mintage Wheat Penny 1909-S VDB: 484,000

If you would like to see which wheat pennies have the lowest mintages, click:
Lowest Wheat Penny Mintages