1914 Barber Half Dollar Has Lowest Mintage of the Series
July 6, 2026
The Barber Half Dollar series isn’t necessarily known for boasting any budget-busting key dates, like its Barber Quarter kin – which has several series stoppers. However, the lowest-mintage business strike for the Barber Halves is most certainly scarce but is by no means financially formidable for series enthusiasts who wish to tackle a run of the entire run. We’re talking about the 1914 Barber Half Dollar, which saw a mintage of less than 125,000 and was produced at the Philadelphia Mint.
The 1914 Barber Half Dollar came along at a time when lower-mintage outputs proliferated as the series wound down. The penultimate issue of the series, the 1914 was among a triplet of low-mintage Philadelphia-struck Barber Half Dollars that consecutively closed out the coin’s production run. The 1914 Barber Half Dollar had a mintage of only 124,230 pieces, following suit with the 1913 and its anemic 188,000 coins and the last Philly Barber Half Dollar with its squad of 138,000 representatives. To be fair, the branch-mint issues of 1913, 1914, and 1915 also saw smaller numbers than was typical for the Barber Half Dollar, but nowhere nearly as small as those posted by Philly during the last three years of the coin’s run.
From PCGS