Rarest coin

Wow I remember that episode and sure wish I own coin

 

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As people have mentioned, it depends on how you define rarity. For conditional rarity in the sense that people commonly consider it, the rarest coin (and most valuable) that I've ever held is the sole PR69 1907 Ultra High Relief lettered edge $20 Saint Gaudens. Needless to say, it was a NICE looking coin. It also would have been the rarest I've held (15 known), although I've seen (through glass) a fair number of other coins, such as all five 1913 Liberty nickels at one go.

From my personal collection, barring varieties and patterns, the rarest coin, in the absolute sense, I own is a PR64Cameo 1858 Seated Liberty. Best current estimate is that 300 were minted, and that somewhere between 75 and 100 survive, most of which would not be cameo, and would grade below 64.




Then again as far as conditional rarities goes, I have a one of one coin. I assume some of you have seen the movie (or read the book), "The Right Stuff". Probably the most famous of all space flown coins are the two rolls of 1961-D Roosevelts (100 coins in total, one of which I own) that Gus Grissom flew with him on the second US space flight ever. Things did not go well for Grissom on the recovery aspect of the flight, and his space capsule, Liberty Bell 7, sank.

Grissom was still considered a top notch test pilot, and he was given command of the First Manned flight of the next spacecraft series the US flew, the Gemini spacecraft. The first manned flight of a Gemini capsule, the one Grissom commanded, was Gemini 3 (tongue in cheek, called Molly Brown, as of in, the Unsinkable Molly Brown). On this flight Grissom only took 1 dime. After the flight he used his survival knife to mark G-T 3 on it (G-T stands for Gemini-Titan, e.g. the spacecraft Gemini and the Titan rocket that launched it). He then gave the dime to Guenter Wendt, the person who was in charge of spacecraft close-out, e.g. the person who made sure the spacecraft was operating properly before sealing in the astronauts before launch.

I own this sole dime from Grissom's second flight, which gives me the only complete set of Grissom flown dimes in existence.

 

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yup!

 

I have owned a 1997-P Matte Proof Jefferson Nickel from the Botanic Gardens Coin and Currency Set - mintage - 25,000

 

Howdy,

Just acquired this beauty.

peace,

rono