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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 25527835, member: 101855"]I have been fascinated by the Twenty Cent Piece since high school. Back then I collected all the pieces in the collection that I could afford, which met I could not get the Proof only dates. Today I have them all, Proof and Unc. except for the 1876-CC, which has always been out of my reach. The cheapest and most common date is the 1875-S. This one is graded MS-63. I've owned this one for almost 30 years. It's one of those coins that were dipped which "worked." [ATTACH=full]1635082[/ATTACH] If you would like a coin that is a bit more unusual, you could go for the 1875-CC. Believe it or not, with a mintage of 133,290, it's the second most common date. This one is graded MS-62. I like because it's well struck. Many 1875-CC double dimes are weakly struck on the eagle's upper left wing and the corresponding area on the shield on the obverse. [ATTACH=full]1635083[/ATTACH] If you want a piece with a low mintage, the 1876 is for you. The Red Book reported number is 14,750, but the actual number issued was lower than that. This one is graded MS-65. [ATTACH=full]1635084[/ATTACH] The 1877 is the most collectable "rare date." The mintage was 510 Proofs. My timing on the purchase of this issue has been lousy. I'm financially buried into this one. It's a PR-64. [ATTACH=full]1635085[/ATTACH] If you ever win the lottery and decide to go for the 1876-CC, all of them are doubled dies. The world "LIBERTY" is doubled on all of them. That has made impossible for counterfeiters to add a "CC" to the reverse of an 1876-P. [ATTACH=full]1635088[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1635089[/ATTACH] The last time I saw one of these coins for sale, the asking price was $600,000.[/QUOTE]

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