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Message:: [QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 4967992, member: 73489"]Interesting Book Facts #1: Figured I'd juice up this thread from time-to-time with some interesting facts from the book that you might not be aware of.<ul> <li>70,290,930 = total number of Saint-Gaudens coins minted, 1907-33.</li> <li>26,951,006 = known melted coins</li> <li>3,707,975   = total known survivors</li> <li>43,339,924 = theoretical survivors not known to have been definitively melted or destroyed</li> </ul>Nearly 40% of all known Saint-Gaudens survivors are 1924-P's.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I myself was surprised that the total of confirmed melted coins is that low (thus leaving open the possibility that 43 MM escaped destruction).  It stands to reason that actual survivors is a fraction of that 43 MM (where the heck could they be? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). We certainly haven't seen any hoards of late (I guess the last major hoard was the 1908 No Mottos). But you never know....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]