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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 26754735, member: 59677&quot;]Case in point. I fell in love with the 3-cent silvers. I didn&#039;t want to play the finest known game (I knew that was out of my price range), so I aimed for XF.</p><p><br /></p><p>Across the five grading services, there are coins to choose from between 1851 and 1862. Totals of 100 -&gt; 300 for each date/mintmark. The most difficult turns out to be 1857, with just 106 graded XF40 or XF45.</p><p><br /></p><p>Including a few raw ones I had graded myself, that&#039;s a doable set.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, feeling my oats, I started looking for 1863-&gt;1872. I knew this would be a long term project. The mintages were low (between 1,000 and 22,000 each year). I even kind of knew the survival estimates were low (100 to 800 pieces).</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t check the TPG populations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Across the ten years, there are a total of 131 graded XF...</p><p><br /></p><p>ooopsie...</p><p><br /></p><p>The toughest to find graded is the 1863 with just 2 pieces (oddly, the 375 surviving of 460 minted made it easier to find in Proof 60). The next hardest is the 1865 with just 3 graded pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most plentiful is the 1870 with 22 graded pieces out of a mintage of 3,000, with 500 estimated to survive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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