Set report · United States · Nickels
Liberty Nickel: Who Owns What
How often each Liberty Nickel coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 2,204 collectors of this set have one. Coins are graded from Common to Extremely scarce against the set's most-owned coin — a measure of collecting frequency, not of how many survive.
Hardest to find in real collections
The five least-owned coins of the set — ownership counts are collector-reported.
…and the ones everybody has
Full set: ownership & rarity, coin by coin
Values by grade for each of these live on the Liberty Nickel catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1883 | 16,026,200 | 487 | 22.1% | Scarce |
| 1883 Without 'Cents' | — | 772 | 35% | Uncommon |
| 1883 (Proof) | 6,783 | 17 | 0.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1883 Without 'Cents' (Proof) | — | 39 | 1.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1884 | 11,270,000 | 305 | 13.8% | Scarce |
| 1884 (Proof) | 3,942 | 16 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1885 | 1,472,700 | 147 | 6.7% | Very scarce |
| 1885 (Proof) | 3,790 | 14 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1886 | 3,326,000 | 183 | 8.3% | Very scarce |
| 1886 (Proof) | 4,290 | 15 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1887 | 15,260,692 | 353 | 16% | Scarce |
| 1887 (Proof) | 2,960 | 13 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1888 | 10,167,901 | 288 | 13.1% | Scarce |
| 1888 (Proof) | 4,582 | 13 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1889 | 15,878,025 | 365 | 16.6% | Scarce |
| 1889 (Proof) | 3,336 | 13 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1890 | 16,256,532 | 364 | 16.5% | Scarce |
| 1890 (Proof) | 2,740 | 14 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1891 | 16,832,000 | 407 | 18.5% | Scarce |
| 1891 (Proof) | 2,350 | 14 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1892 | 11,696,897 | 384 | 17.4% | Scarce |
| 1892 (Proof) | 2,745 | 11 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1893 | 13,368,000 | 437 | 19.8% | Scarce |
| 1893 (Proof) | 2,195 | 13 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1894 | 5,410,500 | 329 | 14.9% | Scarce |
| 1894 (Proof) | 2,632 | 12 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1895 | 9,977,822 | 401 | 18.2% | Scarce |
| 1895 (Proof) | 2,062 | 15 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1896 | 8,841,058 | 418 | 19% | Scarce |
| 1896 (Proof) | 1,862 | 14 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1897 | 20,426,797 | 549 | 24.9% | Uncommon |
| 1897 (Proof) | 1,938 | 11 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1898 | 12,530,292 | 569 | 25.8% | Uncommon |
| 1898 (Proof) | 1,795 | 11 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1899 | 26,027,000 | 721 | 32.7% | Uncommon |
| 1899 (Proof) | 2,031 | 17 | 0.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1900 | 27,253,733 | 740 | 33.6% | Uncommon |
| 1900 (Proof) | 2,262 | 12 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1901 | 26,478,228 | 797 | 36.2% | Common |
| 1901 (Proof) | 1,985 | 16 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1902 | 31,487,561 | 819 | 37.2% | Common |
| 1902 (Proof) | 2,018 | 12 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1903 | 28,004,935 | 824 | 37.4% | Common |
| 1903 (Proof) | 1,790 | 14 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1904 | 21,403,167 | 759 | 34.4% | Uncommon |
| 1904 (Proof) | 1,817 | 11 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1905 | 29,825,124 | 876 | 39.7% | Common |
| 1905 (Proof) | 2,152 | 11 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1906 | 38,612,000 | 917 | 41.6% | Common |
| 1906 (Proof) | 1,725 | 14 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1907 | 39,213,325 | 950 | 43.1% | Common |
| 1907 (Proof) | 1,475 | 14 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1908 | 22,684,557 | 839 | 38.1% | Common |
| 1908 (Proof) | 1,620 | 11 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1909 | 11,585,763 | 702 | 31.9% | Uncommon |
| 1909 (Proof) | 4,763 | 16 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1910 | 30,166,948 | 957 | 43.4% | Common |
| 1910 (Proof) | 2,405 | 15 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1911 | 39,557,639 | 1,049 | 47.6% | Common |
| 1911 (Proof) | 1,733 | 15 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1912 | 26,234,569 | 986 | 44.7% | Common |
| 1912 (Proof) | 2,145 | 13 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1912-D | 8,474,000 | 514 | 23.3% | Scarce |
| 1912-S | 238,000 | 200 | 9.1% | Very scarce |
| 1913 | — | 3 | 0.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1913 (Variety) | 5 | 25 | 1.1% | Extremely scarce |
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Based on the share of this set's collectors who own each coin — how often it turns up in a collection, not how many survive. Not the Sheldon rarity scale.
About these numbers
Ownership counts come from the same live per-coin counters shown across the LuckyCoin catalog; set-level collector counts come from the annual full-collection scan behind The State of Coin Collecting 2026. Counts are collector-reported and aggregate-only. Scarcity tiers come from 100 × (1 − owners ÷ owners of the set's most-owned coin): Common under 25, Uncommon 25–49, Scarce 50–74, Very scarce 75–89, Extremely scarce 90+. This reflects how often a coin is collected, not its surviving population — it is not the Sheldon rarity scale. CC BY 4.0 with attribution.