Your lowest mintage?

Harv wrote:

"Alan & Erin Williams" wrote in message
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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?

Does it have to be legal tender??..

Now that Bill Krummel has captured the glorious first prize of a 40 year
old 90% silver US coin in AU? Nah. Fire away. ;-)


Harv

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"Winde Walker" wrote in message
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First off, my complaint is that Commemorative coins are not legal tender
coins...

They are.. how do you think all those 1893 Columbian Exposition Halves,
Isabella Quarters, and so on got circulated and worn down to lower
grades??.. United States Mint Commemoratives are denominated and monetized
and are Legal Tender. Says so on the COA of every Modern Commemorative you
own.

Now if you want to discuss the wisdom of taking a 2000-W Uncirculated $10.00
BiMetallic Library of Congress Commemorative down to your local diner and
buying a $10.00 meal with a $1000.00 coin, Well, besides the waitress' head
exploding before she calls the Manager who calls the police on you for
trying to pass "funny money".. you'd have to be a few bananas short of a
bunch to do it..

Harv

"Alan & Erin Williams" wrote in message
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And the total acquisition price of these three specimens to myself?

Assuming none of them were gifts that you got for free, I'll guess $302.50

Harv

"Alan & Erin Williams" wrote in message
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Harv wrote:

"Alan & Erin Williams" wrote in message
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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?

Does it have to be legal tender??..

Now that Bill Krummel has captured the glorious first prize of a 40 year
old 90% silver US coin in AU? Nah. Fire away. ;-)

Okay, in that case, the R.c.c. flames and embers would have to be the lowest
Mintage anythings I own.. that is coin-related.

Not even 200 of each, right??.. I've got lots of "low mintage" stuff that
are not coins.. plenty of them.. of which I do know the exact number made,
including some very limited edition commercial and promo music CDs, record
albums, resin sculptures, books, and other stuff.. but in my coin
collection, those R.c.c. pieces have to be the lowest Mintages of all..

Legal tender??.. Hmm.. I sort of want to say my 1998-S Silver SMS Kennedy
Half, at around 63,000, but I didn't think about it very long, so it'd take
some research to see if I have anything of which fewer were made..

Harv

Dale Hallmark wrote:

"Alan & Erin Williams" wrote in message
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Cheep? You better believe it, brother!

A penny saved is a penny earned. ;-) I've only gone past $100 on a coin
three times, that Oregon Trail, a San Diego Commem, and an AU 1909-S
Lincoln. ;-) So far the best purchase I've made was a 1999 Silver Proof
Set for $87. Erin mentions the tremendous margin it now enjoys more
frequently as our anniversary approaches.

I have paid over $100 twice.
Once I paid $240 for a PCGS MS-69 Community Service and
I paid the issue price $205? for the $5 Gold Capital Visitor Center.
Sold the Visitor Center for somewhere between $400 and $500, I forget,
but I still have the Community Service.

Dale
Mostly I likes em cheap!

So this means that you are only 1/2 as cheep as Alan is? :-)
Wheeler, hoping that everyone is seeing the little smile face

Alan & Erin Williams wrote:

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 coin is a proof 1 cent of the Solomon Islands dated
1980 (624 pieces minted) followed closely by one from the British Virgin
isles dated 1979 (680 minted) ...then a Bahamas 15 cent piece of 1978
(767 only)......etc

All of them relatively worthless of course due to lack of demand (hence
probably the reason for low mintages in these cases)..........

Ian

"Wheeler" wrote in message
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Dale Hallmark wrote:

"Alan & Erin Williams" wrote in message
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Cheep? You better believe it, brother!

A penny saved is a penny earned. ;-) I've only gone past $100 on a
coin
three times, that Oregon Trail, a San Diego Commem, and an AU 1909-S
Lincoln. ;-) So far the best purchase I've made was a 1999 Silver
Proof
Set for $87. Erin mentions the tremendous margin it now enjoys more
frequently as our anniversary approaches.

I have paid over $100 twice.
Once I paid $240 for a PCGS MS-69 Community Service and
I paid the issue price $205? for the $5 Gold Capital Visitor Center.
Sold the Visitor Center for somewhere between $400 and $500, I forget,
but I still have the Community Service.

Dale
Mostly I likes em cheap!

So this means that you are only 1/2 as cheep as Alan is? :-)
Wheeler, hoping that everyone is seeing the little smile face

Actually it means I am three times as cheap.
Since I made enough profit on the $5 coin that the
Community Service was nearly free :-)

Dale

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:48:01 GMT, Alan & Erin Williams
wrote:

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

47,955 1936 Cleveland
50,030 1926 Oregon Trail
57,272 1979 Botanic Garden

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

$200.00
Don

If you ask enough people for advice, you're bound to find someone
to advise you to do what you wanted to do anyway.

Coin Saver wrote:
GGPD.
5,000 Specimens.

8-)
Coin Saver

I have .04% of that entire issue.

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JOPN wrote:
My lowest mintage must be one of the RCC tokens. Which one has the lowest
mintage - the 1st?
John N

I think they were all about 121 I have 2.47933% of the entire issue if that number is correct.

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