Your lowest mintage?

It's a certain three-year-old boy's borthday today! Yes, he's been
saddled for life with being an 'April Fool's Day' child, poor tyke.

I have been blasted by the evil Zurg about 45 times already and it's not
even 8AM.
;-)

Anyway, I spent a little time last night after wrapping Buzz Lightyear
in organizing some of the coins in my collection when I had one of those
strange, random,
I've-been-up-too-long thoughts. If your collection was organized from
lowest mintage to highest mintage for each coin, which piece that you
own would be #1?

I have some Barber Quarters, a few 19th century coins, even a 1798 Large
Cent (1,841,745) ;-) but the three 'smallest mintage' coins I own blow
those away. I'll do this as a contest.

Identify these three official US Legal Tender coins by their mintages:

47,955
50,030
57,272

and guess, within $50, what I paid to acquire the three of them. (Public
responses only, please, no e-mail!)

First correct answer by time-stamp gets as a prize, one of the US coins
that has seen the biggest increase in value since 12/01/03....a 1964
Kennedy Half Dollar, containing .36169 oz of silver. ;-)

Alan
'LQQK! RARE!!'

My lowest mintage is a franklin mint Belize quarter with a mintage of 830.

My lowest US coin is a 1948-D BTW with a mintage of 4000-something. It's in VF
and thus is as close as you can get to unique.

eric l.

ELurio wrote:

My lowest mintage is a franklin mint Belize quarter with a mintage of 830.

My lowest US coin is a 1948-D BTW with a mintage of 4000-something. It's in VF
and thus is as close as you can get to unique.

eric l.

Actually, Redbook gives a mintage of 8005 to your BTW. It's still an
order of magnitude lower than my three 'mini-mintages'. ;-)

Alan
'Book 'Em, Dano!'

I have a low mintage 1916-D mercuruy dime in AU condition, Ok it's
really my fathers dime : )

GGPD.
5,000 Specimens.

8-)
Coin Saver

Coin Saver wrote:
GGPD.
5,000 Specimens.

8-)
Coin Saver

I have .04% of that entire issue.

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On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 02:57:14 GMT, George D
wrote:

Coin Saver wrote:
GGPD.
5,000 Specimens.

8-)
Coin Saver

I have .04% of that entire issue.
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Interesting that you mention percentages. I own 50% of the known
examples of the 1837 Browning 6 Bust Quarter. One other known.
Aram.

"Aram H. Haroutunian" wrote:

On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 02:57:14 GMT, George D
wrote:

Coin Saver wrote:
GGPD.
5,000 Specimens.

8-)
Coin Saver

I have .04% of that entire issue.
=========================
Interesting that you mention percentages. I own 50% of the known
examples of the 1837 Browning 6 Bust Quarter. One other known.
Aram.

That's really neat, Aram! Even a 1913 Liberty Nickel is 300x more common!??!

Alan
'those is ubiquitous'

In article ,
ojunk says...
GGPD.
5,000 Specimens.

8-)
Coin Saver


I feel stupid already for even asking the question, but what's GGPD?
--
~Columbia~
'betting I'll feel even more stupider when I hear the answer.'

Columbia wrote:

I feel stupid already for even asking the question, but what's GGPD?

It's a Dobacian acronym for Glenna Goodacre Presentation Dollar.

Glenna Goodacre, the sculptor who did the obverse design of the Golden dollar,
was due a $5000 payment from the Mint for winning the design competition. She
asked that the payment be made in golden dollars.

Then Mint Director, Phil "I'll do as I damned well please" Diehl decided to
send a couple of Mint officials and guards to make the presentation. It was
later determined that the finish on these dollars was different from the
run-of-the-mill golden dollar....they had been "burnished".

Glenna decided to market a couple of thousand of these special dollars. I
believe she had Harris do this for her. They were slabbed by ICG with their
"specialness" noted and sold for a couple of hundred bucks a pop....making her
$5000 payment a bit more than $5000.



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