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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bill in Burl, post: 1917555, member: 23692&quot;]I will echo what Dougsmit and Steve mentioned previously about mintage figures.&nbsp; I would say that well over a million of these 1857 tokens still exist, probably closer to 2 million.&nbsp; If there are only 500 collectors of preconfederation tokens, the supply far outweighs the demand and the prices remain low.&nbsp; For regular US coinage, if there was a similar mintage figure, but 10,000,000 collectors then demand would far outweigh supply and prices would rise appreciably and keep going.&nbsp; If you want to see some whacked out &#039;price vs mintage&#039; figures, just look at Newfoundland coinage (they had their own until 1947) as was mentioned before.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have mintages of well less than 500,000 where VF&#039;s sell for less than $5 at any show and mintages less than 50,000 less than $10.&nbsp; What do you think that a mintage of 38,400 would go for in the US? ... the Newf 1947 5 cent in AU can be had for less than $50 and in VF for less than $10.&nbsp; The dimes for 46 &amp; 47 essentially the same with mintage figures of 38k and 62k.&nbsp; Mintage figures need to be taken with a grain of salt when considering price ... demand means much more and that depends on the number of collectors in that specific (even grade) area.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still think that the original 1857 token is a keeper and something that a collector of any country/denomination would love to have in their collection .. and at a great price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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