Twenty-cent piece

The United States twenty cent coin (often called a twenty cent piece) was a unit of currency equalling 1/5 of a United States dollar. The twenty cent coin had one of the shortest mintages and lowest circulations in US coin history, its mintage for general circulation ceased only two years after it began, for both the series and the denomination. It was minted from 1875–1878, but was only released for circulation in 1875 and 1876, with only a few ... More

The United States twenty cent coin (often called a twenty cent piece) was a unit of currency equalling 1/5 of a United States dollar. The twenty cent coin had one of the shortest mintages and lowest circulations in US coin history, its mintage for general circulation ceased only two years after it began, for both the series and the denomination. It was minted from 1875–1878, but was only released for circulation in 1875 and 1876, with only a few hundred proofs released during the remaining two years. The coin was not reeded and, despite its plain edge, too easily confused with the quarter. It also has the distinction of being one of the few types of coins minted in the short lived Carson City Mint branch of the United States Mint in Carson City, Nevada (which only operated from 1870–1893), and used a "CC" mintmark. It was also produced at the Philadelphia Mint, which did not use a mintmark, and at the San Francisco Mint, where an "S" mintmark was added. Nearly 1,355,000 were produced...

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