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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4523478, member: 101855&quot;]Very few. For $20, you could have bought some nice, interesting coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, in 1880, the average income was $345 a year. A $20 gold piece amounted to 5.7% of what the average person made in a year. How many of the those coins could the average person put away a year? Most people never saw a $20 gold piece. Those coins were for rich business owners to use in large transactions.</p><p><br /></p><p>The face value of the $20 gold made too expensive to collect. The rich guys could save some of the Proof coins, with mintages of maybe 20 coins a year. As for the business strikes, there was little interest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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