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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chip, post: 708898, member: 19122&quot;]Okeh. I think I got it, each contestant must come up with a list of ten not the top ten contestants each with one. so here goes mine, </p><p><br /></p><p>1. the 1916 standing liberty quarter </p><p>2. the 1914d lincoln penny, I have seen a few of these on line but it seems to me not as many as the 1909 s vdb</p><p>3.In nickels I would have used one of marks answers but since he already took it I will go with the 1880 shield nickel, I have seen some shield nickels out there, few in high grade but none of the 1880 mintage</p><p>4.the two cent bronze I have one of 1864 so the small motto may not qualify, being a variety, so I will say the 1872, it had mored than 60k minted but I do not see them at the stores, but I have not been looking real hard, when I visited some websites that sell rare coins, (golden eagle, jjtea, littleton, paradise, et al I have not found any of the 1872&#039;s.</p><p>5. I just picked up my first three cent nickle the other day, I heard that these coins were widely horded during and after the civil war, thus fractional currency, I would name the same year&nbsp; as the shield nickel, for this series, 1880.</p><p>6.On the buffalo nickle I would choose the 1913s, over 1 million were minted but I have not seen any at stores I go to, I have not got into collecting them so my memory might be faulty.</p><p>7. I have seen a few of these, but not many, the 1889-cc morgan dollar, my first impulse was to say the 1895 but since there were less than 15 thou minted it would not count. I have an 1895-s and have seen one or two on coin sites, tho none at local coin shops.</p><p>8.On the peace dollars, which since I have some interest in dollars, the one that I have rarely seen is not the 21 or 28 but the 34 s, with over a million made I should see them a lot more than the 28&#039;s which had about a third of the mintage, perhaps people stashed them away in the depression and they were lost.</p><p>9.The half dollars that I like are the capped busties, but the rules say nothing prior to 1840, so they are out, I have not gotten too much into other issues but from what I have observed here on coin talk and looking around I rarely see seated liberty halves, and I do not think I have seen any from 1841, tho the blue book (1965 ed) says that over 700thousand were minted at philadelpia and new orleans.</p><p>10. The final one is the 20 cent piece 1876 I have seen some of the 75s, in fact I have only seen 75s, according to the blue book (ibid) there were almost 26 thousand minted during the year, perhaps it was a hold over from civil war hoarding, I think that there must be old coin hoards all over that have yet to be discovered.</p><p><br /></p><p>sources, coinsite, cointalk, coin collecting for dummies, the handbook of us coinage (to check mintage), limited and short personal experience.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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