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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samjimmy, post: 184141, member: 3813&quot;]I was looking at a coin, this time from 1869 where the business strike mintage was 423,700 and it&#039;s stated that they (the business strikes) are &quot;considerably rarer than proofs&quot; of this issue (mintages of the proofs was 600).&nbsp; Now, I can understand it might be harder to find MS60 and above, and maybe that&#039;s what they meant, but it doesn&#039;t appear so and that&#039;s not what it said.&nbsp; It seems they are saying that the business strikes are just flat-out more rare (&quot;considerably rarer&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m just wondering how that&#039;s possible.&nbsp; That would mean that *over* 99.8% of them (422,853) were destroyed, shipped to another country, melted, or otherwise MIA -and that&#039;s assuming that *all* 600 proofs remain intact and accounted for.&nbsp; I find it hard to believe that is possible (that *all* 600 proofs remain today so who knows what the current number is), so let&#039;s say the number is closer to 99.9% of all the business strikes being MIA (leaving ~423) to make them &quot;considerably rarer.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone explain this to me, please.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="1"><i>Source: <a href="http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/5227-1869-S-1-PR63-PCGS-Business-strikes-of-this-issu_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ52618QQihZ007QQitemZ170062552184QQrdZ1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/5227-1869-S-1-PR63-PCGS-Business-strikes-of-this-issu_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ52618QQihZ007QQitemZ170062552184QQrdZ1" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/5227-1869-S-1-PR63-PCGS-Business-strikes-of-this-issu_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ52618QQihZ007QQitemZ170062552184QQrdZ1</a></i></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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