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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1755429, member: 15929"]The relative popularity of the coin and its low published mintage numbers will outshine a variety on the coin any day of the week. One of the realities is that the coin has an historical popularity based upon "perceived" rarity. The other reality is that the coin is simply not rare. People choose to "believe" that its rare because of the historical prices it's sold for and generally speaking, that price is usually out of the range of the "average" coin collector. If one were to have the resources to simply "blow" 3 to 4 thousand dollars, this coin is readily available and to me, that's not rare. That's popular. There's another reality at work here as well. The reality that what you have is more than likely simple machine doubling. I say this simply because of the low mintages AND given the popularity of the coin, if there had been an RPM for this particular date and mintmark, it surely would have been identified by now. As a matter of fact, given the low mintage numbers, I doubt that more than 4 dies exist for the entire run. Surely such a small quantity of die's would have produced an RPM by now.[/QUOTE]