Here’s two of my more recent pickups. A 1893-CC and a 1893-O. The 1893-CC had 677,000 minted. In VF-20 this is easily a $625.00 coin. The 1893-O had a mintage of 300,000 but in VF-20 it’s only a $350.00 coin. I have a 1893 and that has a mintage of 378,000 and it’s only $225.00 in the same grade. I do need a 1893-S but that’s a $5000.00 in the same grade. It has a mintage of 100,000. I do have a dealer looking for one. They just found the 1885-CC so I only need the 1893-S to have them all. It’s in the mail so I should have it by the end of the week. I do find the mintages and prices a little odd but I’m not sure of the difficulty in locating them. A number of them may have been melted. I didn’t have any problems in locating them but I may have hit it on the nose when I was looking.
I think I just looked at an 1893 S. I think it was $1250? I think it was around the same condition? If I can, I'll go back and look to make sure.
Sounds good. At that price I’d be concerned about it being a counterfeit. It’s the key to the entire series.
