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Old 05-07-2004, 10:55 PM   #3 (permalink)
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It depends on how you define the term rarest. There are a great many coins of which there is only 1 - kind hard to get more rare than that.

The reason you don't hear so much about these coins like you do with the 5 1913 Liberty nickels or the 1933 $20 St. Gaudens is simple - publicity.

Now if you define rarest as the most valuable - the current most valuable is a coin struck in India. It was a 1000 mohur and there was only 1 ever made. Back in 1989 the coin was up for auction - the bidding reached 10 million dollars. But the owner of the coin withdrew it from the auction because the bid was too low.
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