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1938 D Oregon Trail 6,005:

 

More counterfeit?
D Carr isn't a legitimate goverment he a business ,not minted for monetary reasons,other than to line his pockets .His works should be marked as so FAKES OR COPY! His stuff has no merit in a thread discussing mintages by legitimate goverment with historical significance.....This thread was started to discuss such....not to discuss fakes or copies...

 

I agree. More and more the Carr fans keep finding ways to work the stuff into threads, it should not be in.

 

You know Larry ...collect what you wish spend your money any way you wish....
But I find it very disrespectful to try and high jack a thread with items that arent coins .
I only wish Fake Canada screen name real name Mike.... was here in the states...Mike fought thoughtout the Canadian legislature to stop this sort of stuff in Canada. And his efforts became law. And not only coins....but other countfiet items too.
You like it buy it.....I have no use other than spot if it is real silver..

 

Some pieces I have that ARE imaged already
(keeping the mintage around or below 1,000 pcs.)

Cook Islands - 1990 50 Dollars (Matte)
NGC MS70
Mintage: 550​

1879 Proof Seated Liberty Dime
PCGS PR63 CAC
Mintage: 1,100​

Mexico - 1975 Commemorative Medal
Mintage: 1,000​

Some other pieces I have that aren't imaged and are at or below 1,000 pcs (not counting die varieties):

1904 Louisiana Purchase SCD (est. mintage: 76-200)
Antigua & Barbuda 1982 Proof 30 Dollars (mintage: 675)
France 1980 2 Francs Piedfort (Business Strike) (mintage: 820)
Haiti 1974 Proof 25 Gourdes (mintage: 600)
Tokelau 2014 5 Dollars (Gilded Matte) - (mintage: 1,000)

Have a bunch in the 2,000 - 10,000 range, and frankly I'm always amazed at how cheap a lot of them were (for example, Cu-Ni clad Polish patterns from the 60's.)

 

1839 Maundy 4d - Mintage 4125

 

How about a 19k mintage for actual circulation? Business strikes in very small quantities were common in the 1880s for several denominations. Proofs can actually be more common in some years.

 

The 1982 base metal proof set mintage is not known. It is estimated at 100-300 sets.
The 1983 sterling silver proof set has a reported mintage of 241 sets.
The 1984 sterling silver proof set has a reported mintage of 397 sets.

 

I decided that my Carr pieces didn't count for this thread. I'm not sure what I think about Franklin Mint pieces. It gets even murkier when Franklin ostensibly minted them for a sovereign nation.

What I am sure of is that those are some beautiful coins!

 

I have a link for the guide to attribution on 3 CN if you like it.

https://archive.org/details/guideusthreecent2003gifford/page/n277/mode/2up

 

1879 mintage 38,000

Only 5 known examples of this variety,truly an under appreciated series.

 

https://archive.org/details/guideusthreecent2003gifford/page/n277/mode/2up page 461 1889 B04b

 

1879 Proof Seated Liberty Dime
PCGS PR64
Mintage: 1100

1882 Proof Seated Liberty Quarter
PCGS PR64DCAM
Mintage: 1100

 

I have just as much right to post as anyone.

edited.

Z

 

You certainly do Z as well Show your ignorance ,and disrespect to fellow members...wow always believed that you were much better.....than this!

 

lowest mintage... well probably my DCarr silver owl That i'm too lazy to dig out for a picture... but if you count morgan VAMs for their rarity My 1890 Vam 15a is an R-6... fewer then 30 known....

 

LESS THAN 10 KNOWN


Marsic Confederation
AR Denarius
89 BCE
Italia-
Italia seated shields vict
Corfinium Campana retro B
105 HN Italy 412a Sear 228 RARE


LESS THAN 20 KNOWN


Marsic Confederation / Italian Allies
Social War 90-88 BCE
AR Denarius
19x17.9mm, 3.7g
Anonymous Issue, Corfinium Mint
Obv: Italia head, l, ITALIA behind
Rev: Oath-taking scene with eight warriors, four on each side, pointing their swords towards a sacrificial pig, which is held by an attendant kneeling at the foot of a standard. - Binding the Marsi, Picentines, Paeligni, Marrucini, Vestini, Frentani, Samnites, and Hirpini Tribes into the Marsic Confederation against Rome during the Social War
Comment: The reverse is based on the gold Stater and Half-Stater from the Second Punic War, and the Ti Viturius denarius...
Sear 227 SYD 621 SCARCE



Marsic Confederation
AR Denarius
Bovianum(?) mint, 89 BCE.
3.93g, 20mm, 3h
Obv: Laureate head of Italia left, VITELIA = ITALIA in Oscan script
Rev: Soldier standing facing, head right, foot on uncertain object, holding inverted spear and sword, recumbent bull to right facing; retrograde B in exergue.
Ref: Campana 122 (same dies); HN Italy 407
Ex: Eucharius Collection.
Ex: Roma Auction 11, Lot 607

 

There are only two of these known today. One in the British Museum, and the one that I have.


Etruria, Populonia
2 ½ asses 3rd century BC, AR 0.85 g. Radiate female head r.; behind, CII. Rev. Blank. EC 104 (misdescribed, Female head with an Attic helmet). Historia Numorum Italy 179.
Of the highest rarity, apparently only the second specimen known.
Dark patina and about very fine
From the collection of E.E. Clain-Stefanelli.



India - Shakya Janapada
AR 5-Shana
6th-5th Century BCE
25mm x 21mm, 7.05g
Obv: Central Pentagonal punch plus several banker's marks
Rev: Blank
Ref: Hirano Type I.8.29
19 known.
Coinage from the Ghaghara Gandak River region
Minted in the Shakya Janaprada during Siddhārtha Gautama's (Later the Buddha) lifetime while he was prince, and under the authority of his father as King



Campania, Neopolis
275-250 BCE
AE 18, 4.99g
Obv: Laureate Head of Apollo, NEOPOLITON (in Greek), Theta at r.
Rev: Achelous advancing r, crowned by flying Nike, IOTA SIGMA under Achelous
Ref: Sambon 663; HN Italy 589; SNG ANS 474; SNG Copenhage - ;

@Nicholas Molinari :
"Your first coin is a plate coin in Potamikon, number 343 in our catalog so Sambon 663; Taliercio IIIa.16; MSP I, 343, featuring Acheloios Sebethos as a man-faced bull. Taliercio cited three examples of this type, so yours is the fourth known of that particular variety."
"According to my notes, ACR E-Auction 28 lot 12."