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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cringely, post: 798430, member: 22271&quot;]The old CoinFacts website listed the survival rate as &quot;Probably about 4% of the original 63,353 coin mintage survive: 2,400 to 2,800 in all grades, of which 30 qualify as Mint State,&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the old CoinFacts website lists for the Chain cent: &quot;Quantitative rarity ratings indicate that slightly more than 1,000 Chain Cents survive of all kinds, or about 2.8% of the original mintage. (Survival proportions vary with later designs and dates).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Bowers in <u>A Guide Book of UNITED STATES TYPE COINS</u>, 1st ed. lists the survival rate of Wreath cents to be 2,080 to 31,10 with Chain cents being 714 to 1,119 (circulated and mint states).</p><p><br /></p><p>The 4,789 vs. {2,400 to 2,800} &amp; {2080 to 3110} seems to be a large discrepancy. Does anybody know why the PCGS CoinFacts number is so much (nearly 2x) larger?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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