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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MIGuy, post: 8371489, member: 116145&quot;]Here are my favorite rarities.&nbsp; I think the 1871 Proof Half Dime is the lowest mintage that I have at 960.&nbsp; The 1893 Isabella Quarter mintage, after they melted a bunch of unsold ones, was 24,214 (it was a commemorative for the 1893 Columbian Exposition - first quarter with a woman and first US coin with a monarch on it, and it was priced the same as the Columbian Exposition half dollar - at $1, so most folks bought the half dollar).&nbsp; The Feuchtwanger 3 cent pieces are very rare - he was an interesting fellow - a pharmacist and metallurgist, among other things, and his pieces are interesting to me as he attempted to get Congress to adopt his design and to use nickel in coins in 1837 (and later years) but was unsuccessful.&nbsp; Nonetheless because currency was in short supply his &quot;coins&quot; were used in commerce.&nbsp; Of course Congress outlawed private currency in 1864, which also ended the California fractional gold currency, though they were still produced as &quot;tokens&quot; or &quot;bangles&quot; for some years and used as currency until 1883, when the Secret Service began cracking down, starting with Frederick Linde, a Los Angeles jeweler.&nbsp; I like my 1876 AU Details octagon 50 cent California Fractional gold piece a lot.&nbsp; Of course the King of the Standing Liberty Quarters is the 1916 - which was only produced in December of 1916, the last year of the Barber Quarter, with a mintage of 52,000, PCGS estimates that 10,000 survive.&nbsp; The SLQ design until 1925 had a raised date that commonly wore off in circulation.&nbsp; The 1860-S Seated Liberty Quarter mintage was 56,000.&nbsp; And the 1893-O dollar posted the lowest mintage figure for any New Orleans Mint silver dollar of the Morgan design, at 300,000.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1485544[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1485545[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1485546[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1485547[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1485548[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1485549[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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