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Message:: [QUOTE="Detecto92, post: 2027453, member: 75105"]Well since they minted over 300k of them (some did get melted down, but you would be mad to melt down a "key date" and over 6500 exist in PCGS plastic, 300 plus in ICG plastic and another 4200 in NGC, I don't really consider it "Rare". Maybe in the sense of the series, sure. In fact 104 are for sale right now on eBay. If you want to talk rare, the royal mint minted just 3,940 1, 2 ,3 and 4 pence maundy coins in 1968. Try to find one for sale or one that has sold on eBay, you wont. They are only worth $250 to boot. So since over 10,000 of them are sitting in plastic, I can think of many ways how this seller obtained "such a rarity". 1. His grandfather, uncle, etc collected Morgan dollars and left it to him, and he had it certified and is selling it because he needs the money or doesn't collect Morgans. 2. He purchased cheap from a friend who was left it and had it certified and is now selling it. However if someone wound up with a 1968 maundy set I would not raise an eyebrow, even though they are much scarcer than a silly Morgan dollar. It really pains me how us coin collectors attach words like "scarce", "rare", and "hard to find" on coins that were minted in the hundreds of thousands, and think nothing of coins from other countries that had mintages under 5,000.[/QUOTE]