What's in a lot of 176 "junk silver" Franklins?
Whit
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Hello all: It's been a welcome slow night, so as an aging mathematician and numismatist, I helped a relative sort the Franklins from his junk silver that he's been gathering for the past couple of years, then crunched some numbers. Here are the results:
48P---2
48D--2
49P--1 (a lustrous, beautiful slider)
49D--1
49S--1
50P--7 (another beautiful lustrous slider among these)
50D--1
51P--5
51D--3
51S--8
52P--10
52D--10
52S--1
53P--2 (under 2.7 million mintage)
53D--17
53S--0
54P--8
54D--10
54S--0
55--0
56--3
57P--1
57D--3
58P--3 (only about 4 million mintage)
58D--16
59P--1
59D--3
60P--0
60D--1
61P--1
61D--5
62P--7
62D--3
63P--18
63D--22
64P-- very sorry not to see one. However he does have a Franklin with a defaced date. Maybe that's the one.
I had forgotten what low mintages some of these issues sport: under 2.7 million for the 53P, and about 4 million for the 58P.
Turns out that this distribution is not representative of the actual mintages. But why expect it to be? There is no reason to believe that junk silver lots are simple random samples. (A chi-square goodness-of-fit test gives a p-value that is well below .01 for those of you who care. Outliers include the 53D and 63D.)
So that's it. Only 4 coins away from a complete set. Good night.
Comments
Very cool...
Hoard the keys.
thanks for sharing. I see one each of the 49's, I need some 49's for my set...
Sweet !!!
Interesting...
Did you find any errors or noteworthy flaws? Peace Roy
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An interesting project for an evening....did you at least start one album?? Cheers, RickO
"64P-- very sorry not to see one. However he does have a Franklin with a defaced date. Maybe that's the one."
Unlikely....
Yes sir, that is unfortunately so. I am not aware of any claims to their existence except perhaps by Breen.
Yes, sir, I did have an empty Dansco that I passed along to my uncle, though he doesn't have the coin bug .... yet. He just likes silver ... although he was impressed by the 49P and 50P. Still, he won't be into full bell lines any time soon.
He has more walkers than Franklins, so as soon as I can get him to his sd box, we'll be sorting those too.
No sir, I did not.
@Whit .... That trove of Walkers should be interesting....Look forward to your report on that... Cheers, RickO