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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 2018099, member: 75105&quot;]Ideally one would think this, but over 1.8 million Silver eagles have been graded just through PCGS alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>The population isn&#039;t really special, I simply included it because it was in the title of the eBay listing.</p><p><br /></p><p>What makes the piece cool, is the fact only 2,500 were struck, yet by no means rare in the sense of value. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are tons of Crown Coins that have very low mintage figures, you have the Newfoundland 50 cent coins with mintages on several years running below 80,000, and Maundy coins of the UK, which can have mintage figures under 1,000. Neither are worth as much as a 1909-S VDB Cent which had a mintage of 484,000, or the 1916-D dime, with a mintage of 264,000. Right now there are over 400 1909-S VDB cents on eBay. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of the reasons I switched to collecting world coins. Sure, low mintage coins may not be as valuable or as collectible as the key dates of their </p><p>American counter parts, but it does give a sense of joy to own coins with mintages of less than 1,000.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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