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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samjimmy, post: 184324, member: 3813&quot;]The exact same thing could be said about the proofs though.&nbsp; Few collected them (with only 600 produced, that&#039;s a given), and &quot;coins in a collection are often mishandled after 100 years of being passed on to other collectors&quot; and &quot;some of them are eventually spent and placed into circulation.&quot;&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen a good many of the proofs that looked like they&#039;d been to war and back. Seems to me it would be rare in *any* condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it&#039;s fair to say that out of the 600 proofs produced, there aren&#039;t 600 left (lost, spent, buried, abused, melted, or otherwise MIA -but exactly how many survived I don&#039;t know... less than 600).&nbsp; ~423 proofs might even be high, but let&#039;s use it as a ball park, as it matches the mintage of the business strikes x 99.9%.&nbsp; Just hard to believe that a coin with a mintage of 423,700 is &quot;considerably rarer&quot; than a coin with a mintage of 600, and that 423,276 of those 423,700 business strikes are MIA.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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