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March of Dimes Proof Mintage Correction

Mark Benvenuto has written a very good article in “Big Bargains in Big Silver” [Feb. 2, 2021, issue] except for a major error in his information

In the second to last paragraph, he gives the mintage of the 2015 March of Dimes proof $1 as 32,030, just like the Red Book and the Mint’s own website.

Problem is, there were also 74,430 of the proof $1 issued with the Mint’s three-coin set of dollar, “W”-mint dime and reverse proof dime.

That brings the total mintage to 106,460,

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