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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lonegunlawyer, post: 1565484, member: 40282&quot;]Touche, a bit at least (much more if your book expressly supports your conclusion).</p><p><br /></p><p>However, ultimately, the burden of proof is yours because you are trying to prove $20 gold coins were not in common use in everyday life.&nbsp; You presented one source that discussed populations, but those population reports do not account for all such coins that would fall into that category.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the ones that are graded, per the Red Book that even at XF, are only valued at $150 above spot which supports the conclusion that there are plenty of graded coins in the VF-XF categories available, hence used back in the day such that they were as common as say a $100 bill is today.&nbsp; Furthermore, there are probably many more that could belong in the VF-XF categories, but are unaccounted for because it is not worth it to have them graded.&nbsp; Also, it is hard to argue that many AG-F examples that would have been circulated, and therefore common, have been melted with the rise in the price of gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ultimately, we are both asking the OP to take in all the evidence and reasonable inferences therefrom, weigh the evidence and reasonable inferences, then make a decision as to whether $20 gold pieces were common in everyday life or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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