Your Rarest RAREST Coin of All Time.. All Time!

I think by tomorrow the thread will weather this storm and get back to normal as I originally intended for it.

 

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These are your statements. The first one I disagreed with. The second one is acceptable. I have and will continue to define scarce as a degree of rarity between common and rare.

 

Not quite...but if that is an offer I'll take it!!! hahaha

 

We all have our own words we like to use. I don't use the Sheldon grading scale!

 

Paul and Paul only on US coins...does a coin with a proof mintage of 3200 qualify as rare? I understand condition rarity - several dates have a condition rarity simply because of strike. Now I have 2 of the coins with a mintage of 3200 and neither coin cost me $500 dollars - one is proof 64 and the other is proof 62. I consider them rare and the coins are not dogs either. Now I have several coins over $500 dollars that I do not consider rare, even when considering variety or condition - and the fantasy aspect just did not inspire me. And I am still glad I asked the original question.

 

See above .

 

Since I don't have to own it I'll go with that fabulous example shown in Coin Values for the 1796 Draped Bust , small eagle quarter , I drool over that coin every time I see it .
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I don't know if this coin will fit everyone's definition of rare...but it does mine. The example pictured sold on HA for over $4000 and it is one of my dream coins. This is a 1880 Goloid Dollar Pattern. This design is seen in 3 examples: J-1645 (Goloid Alloy), J-1646 (Copper), J-1647 (Aluminum). The copper is the most common and the aluminum the most rare.

This is an example of the Goloid alloy (J-1645) coin. I think it is an interesting coin and a beautiful design. I don't own one...yet.

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Interesting definition. The Panama-pacific commemorative coin would not qualify and yet the 1882 snow-6 IHC(only about 10 specimens known) coin I had would qualify. And you are right it does not mention mintage, but still I consider low mintage coins (few thousands) to be rare. Interesting definition.

 

So... I actually got it right?

On an off note, if you'll notice, Jay. I have been forthright and honest from the start. I let the fact that we got off on the wrong foot go and I am hoping you have done the same for me as well as most others here.

 

Here is another dream coin of mine. It is the only one I have ever seen...but there might be more out there I don't know. This coin was sold for $10,950 at the 2008 Long Bach Auctions and was my favorite coin sold at that event.

It is a 2000-P Sacajawea Dollar error struck on a 1999 SBA planchet. The coin was graded by ANACS as an AU58.

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I think it would depend upon the extant population remaining in that grade. Certainly with a mintage that low, the coin is scarce, but if the majority of the extant pieces are of a higher grade, the coin could hardly be considered rare which would explain the price. The only proofs that I know that are affordable are proof IHC's. The majority of these proofs are readily available in PF65+, even those with lower mintages. In the case of proof IHC's, most collectors demand gem state coins. The lack of demand below this grade level suppresses prices despite the apparent rarity.

As far as coins with prices over $500, I have many and none of them are truly rare coins. The only coin that I own that I would even consider rare is my Lafayette Dollar DuVall 3-D MS65. The extant population in MS65 regardless of die variety is 429/159 with a price tag approaching five figures. The DuVall 3-D makes up only about 5% of the total population. Applying this percentage to the total yields a rough estimate of 21/8 surviving examples of the die variety.

 

Well, this coin used to be my most valueable coin until gold soared beyond belief...now my most expensive coin is my 1908 No Motto NGC MS64 saint gaudens. It's not the most rare however.

Here's the saint gaudens:


My most 'rare' coin isn't actually rare, its scarce at most (Well at least when you compare it to the mintages of the coronet liberty type afterwards)
Cost me $1200 from mark feld.

 

Here is my rarest. It is a Judd 1769 1 cent pattern coin made of aluminum. It has a pcgs/ngc pop of 15 according to the newest edition of the red book pattern coins book.

 

Let's move on from what you're talking about.. It's been a day and there is no reason for you to have to bring this dialogue up again, Doug, just drop it. You always wait and come in a day after the dust settles to mention your opinion on the matter. Sometimes it's best we just let things past and not let it keep roasting.

I heard and read what you just said though. So thank you.

I asked for people to share their dream coins and/or the ones they have.

Moving along...Great coins thus far.. That last one is amazing. How much is something like that worth?

 

"I'm a Friend of Doug."

(Sorry... I went back and read as much of this as was interesting and I see that the short timeline and wavering parameters make this far less interesting. I really was more interested in the true collector's viewpoint as expressed by Frank Robinson in Confessions of a Numismatic Fanatic. As a child, his coin pals were gushing about the Brasher Doubloons -- and remained unimpressed with his Chinese cash, several of which were unique and many of which were less common than the Brasher coins.

I thought that's what this was about.)
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I think it is funny you say this to Doug about him posting yet instead of you letting it drop like you said you are the one that keeps posting. Wasn't it you that said you didn't like to agrue? To me it seems like someone who just has to get the last word in.

 

Guys, enough. Just let it go (everyone). Lets try and post some cool coins instead. I was among the most vocal about this early on and even I dropped it...and have posted a couple of coins since that IMHO are very cool coins. So, everyone now knows what the intent of this thread was...so just let it go.