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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 728723, member: 66&quot;]Simpe reason, mintages were low.&nbsp; By the time the Charolette mint was established the gold mines in the area were beginning to play out and their output was greatly reduced.&nbsp; Also the area was still basically rural so there just wasn&#039;t that much need for coins locally.&nbsp; It probably made more sense to just have the gold assayed, cast into bars and then shipped out.&nbsp; Finally the rich strikes in California occured just ten years after the Charlotte Mint opened which drew miners&nbsp; and other out of the area further reducing output and creating much greater output of gold from the other mints.&nbsp; This made the Charlotte mint output even smaller by comparison.</p><p><br /></p><p>Something else to consider is that the Charolette mint closed down in 1861, but collecting by mintmark did not become popular until the 1930&#039;s.&nbsp; The only thing that mattered was the date and it was much easier to find a nice Philadelphia&nbsp; or other mint coin for your collection.&nbsp; So the rare C mint coins continued to circulate until they were worn and redeemed for recoining.&nbsp; That means a low survival rate.&nbsp; By the time people began becoming interested in acquiring the C mint gold coins most of them were already gone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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