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Message:: [QUOTE="7Jags, post: 2436215, member: 78719"]You know, that last is a good point. Might be a bit embarrassing to let the actual figures out. On the other hand it makes for some rare and very hard to find sets and coins which is of course part of the fun of the whole thing. RM struck for Jamaica a Danish astronomer coin (Tyco Brahe?) with some huge listed mintage in the tens of thousands and yet it shows up maybe twice a year at most in all of the ebay auctions and goes for a pittance - even I had to leave it alone for how ugly and relatively pointless it is. Interestingly, the supposed actual figures for Cayman Islands 1986 & 7 were 317 and 318 versus the limit mintage of 500. They are quite rare as well, and interesting because the Royal mint used OLD FRANKLIN MINT DIES WITH THE FRANKLIN MINT LOGO on three of the coins in the sets of '86 and two in '87; still used the FM dies on two of the '88 coins but removed the mintmark. They also did this with their Royal Mint "Birds of Belize" 1985 set, wherein the FM reverse bird die designs were used for all denominations.[/QUOTE]