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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dougmeister, post: 1999624, member: 56842&quot;]Just out of curiosity...</p><p><br /></p><p>I wondered why so many sites say that 5,000 1873 &quot;No Arrows&quot; were minted, yet none could give no prices for any, even in &quot;Good&quot; condition. Obviously none have ever been discovered... yet thousands were minted?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.usacoinbook.com/coins/half-dollars/seated-liberty/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usacoinbook.com/coins/half-dollars/seated-liberty/" rel="nofollow">http://www.usacoinbook.com/coins/half-dollars/seated-liberty/ </a></p><p><br /></p><p>Then I found a reference at David Lawrence in a book that is now free (and probably well-known to the old-timers here): The Complete Guide to Liberty Seated Half Dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://blog.davidlawrence.com/index.php/reference-books/the-complete-guide-to-liberty-seated-half-dollars/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blog.davidlawrence.com/index.php/reference-books/the-complete-guide-to-liberty-seated-half-dollars/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.davidlawrence.com/index.php/reference-books/the-complete-guide-to-liberty-seated-half-dollars/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This page here:</p><p><a href="http://blog.davidlawrence.com/index.php/seated-half-dollars-1873-s/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blog.davidlawrence.com/index.php/seated-half-dollars-1873-s/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.davidlawrence.com/index.php/seated-half-dollars-1873-s/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>tells me that:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3"><i>Of the 5,000 minted No-Arrows coins, none are known to exist today. With the April 1, 1873 effective date of the Coinage Act of 1873, all existing No-Arrows coins were supposedly melted at the mint before release. </i></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p></blockquote><p>Also interesting was this tidbit:</p><blockquote><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>A single No-Arrows piece (Breen-4972), an assay piece shipped to Philadelphia on March 5, 1873 and cataloged in Beistle’s reference, is untraced. It may have been in Col Green’s collection when cataloged by Beisde, or more likely, Beistle acknowledged the possible existence of this coin but never really saw it. Most likely, the 1873-S No-Arrows assay coin took the route of most assay pieces and was destroyed.</i></font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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