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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 8188369, member: 73489&quot;]<b>Here&#039;s the table/data from Page 603 for those who don&#039;t have the book; I commented on this on Page 1 of this thread:</b></p><ul> <li><b><span style="color: #0080ff">70,290,930</span></b> = total number of Saint-Gaudens coins minted, 1907-33.</li> <li><span style="color: #ff0000"><b>26,951,006</b> </span>= known melted coins</li> <li><b><span style="color: #ff8000">3,707,975 </span></b>=&nbsp;&nbsp; total known survivors</li> <li><b><span style="color: #00b300">43,339,924 </span></b>= theoretical survivors not known to have been definitively melted or destroyed</li> </ul><p><b><u>I may have asked Roger why the last category is so high -- unless you think that the actual 1933-37 melting didn&#039;t take place to the extent we all assume, that figure&nbsp; (43 MM) SHOULD largely be part of the 27 MM (Known Melted Coins), enlarging that figure.&nbsp; I guess he is saying that the DOCUMENTED destroyed coins only total 26.9 MM so you can&#039;t assume the 43 MM are in that category (where 43 MM or large numbers of these coins could be, I have no idea).<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></u></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Roger commented extensively on his book in a lengthy thread ATS; I&#039;ll have to see if he stated why he thinks any significant % of those 43 MM could still be out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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