What's the rarest coin you own?

Yeah, I made sure that I took this, and her 4 sisters, out of the marketplace. Unfortunately, there are still others out there.

 

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Rarest coin I own is this half sovereign minted in 1997. Glad I can show it off!

 

I just started recently looking but found a 1998 Wide AM I think lol

 

Ya know what's dang sad I don't know .. but I'm bout to guess it's either a colonial or foreign Tibetan coin

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My present Rarest is one of two known. Mine and one in the British Museum:


Etruria, Populonia
2 ½ asses , AR 0.85 g (Similar to a Roman AR Sestertius)
3rd century BCE
Obv: Radiate female head r.; behind, CII (retrograde, read as IIC).
Rev: Blank.
Ref: EC 104 (misdescribed, Female head with an Attic helmet). Historia Numorum Italy 179.
NAC Comment: Of the highest rarity, apparently only the second specimen known. Dark patina and about very fine.
Ex: From the collection of E.E. Clain-Stefanelli
(@@ancientcoinguru further pointed out and had me further research E.E. Clain-Stefanelli's excellent provenance...
ANS Executive Director Ute Wartenburg reported that Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli died Oct. 1, 2001. Mrs. Stefanelli retired in 2000 as the Senior Curator of the National Numismatic Collection in the Numismatics Division of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. She was at the Smithsonian for forty years, and was responsible with her husband Vladimir for organizing and building up the National Numismatic Collection (from 60,000 to over 1,000,000 pieces.) She survived a Nazi concentration camp in WWII Europe, moved to Rome, and learned numismatics there. In New York she and her husband worked for Stack's and started the Coin Galleries division there. Her most recent publication was "Life In Republican Rome On its Coinage", a lavishly illustrated discussion of the themes which appear on the coinage of the Roman Republic, published in 1999. Her major contribution to the science of numismatic literature was her classic "Numismatic Bibliography", published in 1985.

 

Shropshire D&H 13bis conder token, unique. I did have another unique piece but a second one turned up about two years ago.

 

I know you posted this 2 years ago, but my goodness nice find. What a jackpot

 

Numbers representing rarity are a personal opinion. In my own opinion, anything with a mintage below 500,000 can be considered rare, especially compared with recent and even older average mintage figures. Survivors are certainly far less than those minted and with these numbers not everyone could own one. I have several <500,000 issues.

1864 Two Cent SM, mintage unknown*
1796 Cent, mintage 109,285
1806 Quarter Dollar, mintage 206,124
1795 Half Dollar, mintage 299,680
1806 Half Cent, mintage 356,000
1799 Dollar, mintage 426,515
1909SVDB Cent, mintage 484,000

*"a few thousand" per Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins, p.238

 

1802/1 Half Eagle BD-1 Variety, estimated only 75-100 have survived.

 

Here are a few of mine:
1867-S half dime, mintage 120000
1844-O half dime, mintage 220000
1852-O half dime, mintage 260000
1871-S half dime, mintage 161000
1863 Mather and Shefferly Civil War Store Card, 5-10 known (mintage probably a few hundred).

But what I honestly go after is survival rates, not mintages. So let's see (numbers from PCGS Coinfacts)

1859-S half dollar, 150 survivors
1852-O half dime, 200 survivors
1841-O half dime, 200 survivors
1867-S half dime, 225 survivors
1844-O half dime, 300 survivors
1842-O dime, 400 survivors
1841 half dime, 600 survivors
1871-S half dime, 600 survivors
1839-O dime, 600 survivors
1863 Mather and Shefferly Civil War Store Card (5-10 known)

 

Just got 8 Kennedy 1964 at Walgreens. Posting pics soon.!

 

Not the "rarest," but one of 'em:
1998 500 Won (S. Korea)
Mintage: 8,000

 

1799 Half Eagle / Large Stars Reverse - the rarer variety of a mintage totaling 7,451 for the year.



'dude

 

PCGS says that 55 of these still exist. WOW! Amazing coin.

 

1909 VDB PR64RD

Been broke ever since.