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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 24490659, member: 112&quot;]We need to understand that the two things, mintage and survival rates, have nothing to do with each other. It&#039;s pretty common for coins with lower mintages than others to have the highest survival rates. For example, sometimes the first year of issue will have one of the lower mintages of the series but the higher or even highest survival rates of the series. </p><p><br /></p><p>Typically to find out which particular coin has the highest survival rate you need specialized books on the specific series. Unfortunately these books don&#039;t even exist for some series, other times they do. And when they don&#039;t, or if you don&#039;t have that book, about all you can do is make an educated guess based on the commonality of sales and or pop numbers. </p><p><br /></p><p>And when it comes to cost/value, that can be all over the map, and sometimes completely unrelated to mintages and or survival rates. This is because popularity often plays a large part when it comes to determining cost/value. And it is not uncommon for some coins with higher survival rates than others to be the most expensive of the series - purely because of popularity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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