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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 24151645, member: 101855"]I checked into what dealer Jeff Garrett had to say in his U.S. gold coin encyclopedia. For the 1892-O $10 gold, he says that it is easily obtained in grades up to MS-62. After that, it gets tough. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the 1893-O, his first sentence is, “Disregard this seemingly low mintage figure, as the 1893-O eagle is a common coin that can be easily in any grade up though MS-62.” </p><p><br /></p><p>As the others have said, survival numbers are much more important than mintages. There may have been bags containing some of these coins that somehow escaped the great melt of the 1930s. </p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, there aren’t a lot of collectors who are working on date and mint collections of Liberty $10 gold coins. Just a quick peek at the long list of coins in <u>The Red Book</u> will tell you that this would be a very expense set to complete. There are probably far more 1909-S-VDB cents than there are 1892+O and 1893-O eagles, but that are infinitely more collectors who are chasing the cent than the gold pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 24151645, member: 101855"]I checked into what dealer Jeff Garrett had to say in his U.S. gold coin encyclopedia. For the 1892-O $10 gold, he says that it is easily obtained in grades up to MS-62. After that, it gets tough. For the 1893-O, his first sentence is, “Disregard this seemingly low mintage figure, as the 1893-O eagle is a common coin that can be easily in any grade up though MS-62.” As the others have said, survival numbers are much more important than mintages. There may have been bags containing some of these coins that somehow escaped the great melt of the 1930s. In addition, there aren’t a lot of collectors who are working on date and mint collections of Liberty $10 gold coins. Just a quick peek at the long list of coins in [U]The Red Book[/U] will tell you that this would be a very expense set to complete. There are probably far more 1909-S-VDB cents than there are 1892+O and 1893-O eagles, but that are infinitely more collectors who are chasing the cent than the gold pieces.[/QUOTE]
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