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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 6466088, member: 66"]I'm not aware of any melting before circulation. As for why they are rare all you have to do is look at the mintages. 1870 CC had the highest at 11,758 and even that is low compared to the other years of this low mintage series. Then you have 1871 CC 1,376 1872 CC at 3,150 and 1873 CC at 2,300.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the 1871 is the third rarest coin in the series, 1873 is 4th, 1872 is 5th, and the "common" 1870 is the 8th. This is out of a 36 coin series. The top 2 coins, the 1851 and 1852 with mintages of 1,300 and 1,100 respectively are extremely difficult to acquire. The 1871 CC is much easier compared to those two. (We don't even consider the 1870 S with no official mintage and only 9 specimens known to exist.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 6466088, member: 66"]I'm not aware of any melting before circulation. As for why they are rare all you have to do is look at the mintages. 1870 CC had the highest at 11,758 and even that is low compared to the other years of this low mintage series. Then you have 1871 CC 1,376 1872 CC at 3,150 and 1873 CC at 2,300. So the 1871 is the third rarest coin in the series, 1873 is 4th, 1872 is 5th, and the "common" 1870 is the 8th. This is out of a 36 coin series. The top 2 coins, the 1851 and 1852 with mintages of 1,300 and 1,100 respectively are extremely difficult to acquire. The 1871 CC is much easier compared to those two. (We don't even consider the 1870 S with no official mintage and only 9 specimens known to exist.)[/QUOTE]
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