whats your coin with the lowest mint number?

My 1865 J-432 Seated Liberty Half Dollar copper pattern

R.7 mintage of about 6

 

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last time I checked proofs looked different then business strikes. they are two different coins. thus the separate mintages.

if coin xxx has 800 proofs and 4,000,000 business strikes.

and you want coin xxx in a proof (for its superb finish) than you only have 800 to chose from.

if you want a business strike than you have 4,000,000 to chose from.(or how many survived)


or you can polish down a business strike to look like a proof and just ignore the mintage.

 

1905 Barber half. Mintage = 662,000

 

That's true, most everyone here can tell the difference between an impaired proof and an XF 1884 half, right???

Obviously modern proofs are visible, I just don't care about them and was referring more to matte proofs and earlier issues. By definition "proof" was just a trial strike "proving" the die was acceptable. It has nowadays morphed into its own industry.

 

did you want to post the mintage of one of your ancients ? or did you just want to give other people a bad time. Lol

its all good

 

Does my 1898-p VAM 2A R-5 Morgan Count?

 

Here is a scarcish little piece. From what others believe there might be 100-200 in existence. Cost me $80, but took me a few years to find one for sale.

Ancients are full of examples like this, "scarce" means a couple of hundred in existence, but not much demand, so prices not outrageous but its hard to find one to buy.

Btw, its a Sogdian with a camel obverse, circa 7th century AD.

You were right X115, I should contribute and not just throw stones.

 

Now that is a magnificent coin, I love patterns. (And ancients to Medoraman)

 

mine is 1892 2.5 dollar gold piece. if i remember right 2440 minted. (au58)

 

The coin in my avatar has the lowest mintage as only 10,000 were minted. But it's not that valuable.

My coin that has the lowest mintage (known, ie not ancients) is an 1888 Sweden 5 Ore w/ small lettering. 214,000 were minted.

 

How about this ONE Roman Coin very very old....

 

lowest mintage... depending on the source, this is one of 3 to 5 known, though i have only seen 1 other pic (so it's a possible 1 of 2)...

 

I think this one mintage of 7500

 

I just remembered this from the ANA show 500 minted part of a set of Canadian coins

 

Without going into special issue coins, I'll say the 1852-O Seated Liberty Half Dollar at 144,000. On the specialty side, it is the 2009-DC Proof (Thick Mint Mark) from Daniel Carr at 368.