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Coin Trivia: What's the lowest mintage business strike US gold coin?ANSWERED!

SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭✭
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    KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1933 double eagleimage
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    tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1885 $20 gold?
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    boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1870-s three dollar gold.
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    SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭✭
    KK, great guess, but they made alot, and melted alot.

    TDN, You really DON'T like gold do you?

    Seth
    Collecting since 1976.
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I'm not sure about business strike or not.

    1849 Double eagle.
    1870S dollar

    I think 1870S half dime is unique. Added: didn't see the gold thing. was thinking all coins.
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    SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭✭
    B78, shall I say "confirmed" mintage.....image

    BTW, how have you been?
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    tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TDN, You really DON'T like gold do you?

    Sheesh, can't a guy take a WAG without being insulted around here? image [those mid 1880's $20 golds were pretty low]

    The 70-S $3 didn't have an official mintage, did it?

    1876 $3??
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    elwoodelwood Posts: 2,414 ✭
    I was going to say an 1815 Half Eagle, then I cheated.
    It's a tie 1849 $20 Mintage - 1
    1870-S $3 - 1
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    tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The 1849 isn't a business strike and the 70-S doesn't have an official mintage. No good on either count....
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    SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭✭
    Does everyone here know the difference between a business strike and a proof? imageWhere's coinguy to explain these things.........

    elwood 1849 is not a business strike

    TDN, 1876 Three is like the 1884 & 1885 Seated Liberty Trade Dollarsimage Proof only.

    Seth

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    tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1876 $10
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    SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭✭
    TDN, you just smacked the ball on a 340 yard par 5 one inch from the whole!!!!
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    boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Seth- I have been fine thanks! How about yourself? Not sure the mintage but the 1854-s half eagle mintage was very small.
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    SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭✭
    I've been great, wife had a baby girl last month!

    Good guess, if memory serves me correctly( I'm losing it at age 31), the 1854-S is number 3 or 4 on the list. But, only 3 known, which makes it awesome.

    Seth
    Collecting since 1976.
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    elwoodelwood Posts: 2,414 ✭
    $3 1873 Open 3
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    elwoodelwood Posts: 2,414 ✭
    OOOOP'S Proof Only
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    BruggsBruggs Posts: 449 ✭✭
    1875 $10.
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    elwoodelwood Posts: 2,414 ✭
    $10- 1907
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    cointagiouscointagious Posts: 847 ✭
    if it's not the aformentioned 1875 $10 then it has to be one of the other 1875 issues. probably the 1875 $5.00. the gold 1875 anything but the $20. is a great date.
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    boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Seth- Congratulations on your new arrival!image I am sure shes MS70 all the way!image
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    orevilleoreville Posts: 12,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Seth: Your quote:

    << <i>......Where's coinguy to explain these things......... >>



    So that is the reason why coinguy had to hire the gold expert, Douglas Winter to help him in answering your threads!!!!!!!!!image
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    shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    I was looking for an 1876 eagle for a long time and noticed the 1875 had only a mintage of 20 or so coins. I think the 1875 eagle is the winner as it wasn't a test strike or proof.
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    VeridicusVeridicus Posts: 312 ✭
    The 1875 eagle has a mintage of 120 of which 20 are proof. My vote is for the 1841-O half eagle with a mintage of 50.
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    SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭✭
    1875 Eagle....with a mintage of 100. About 10 or so are known. Finest being a Ch. AU or thereabouts.
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    VeridicusVeridicus Posts: 312 ✭


    << <i>1875 Eagle....with a mintage of 100. About 10 or so are known. Finest being a Ch. AU or thereabouts. >>



    I disagree. The 1841-o half eagle had a mintage of 50, of which none are known.
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    Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    1907 eagle with rolled rims and periods mintage was 42. And it was not a proof. They actually struck 20,000 of them but remelted 19,958 leaving a total mintage of 42.
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    shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>1875 Eagle....with a mintage of 100. About 10 or so are known. Finest being a Ch. AU or thereabouts. >>



    I disagree. The 1841-o half eagle had a mintage of 50, of which none are known. >>



    Were they trial strikes or mysterios coins (like the 1873-S silver dollar) about which no one knows the real story?
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    boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey! I thought we were supposed to do this without a Redbook?image I actually have a 1907 Rolled edge Indian and I never thought of it as a possible answer to this question.image probably because there were thousands minted (mintage is subject to debate) and all but 42 were melted.
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Great thread!

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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,398 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1849 double eagle?

    (Never mind. I just read above about it not being a business strike. Oh well.)

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    SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭✭
    So, If there isn't a surviving example, does it still count as a legitimate coin? After all we can't prove it.....and we can't disprove it either. But it sure helps to have a known coin. Thoughts?


    Seth
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    tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hmmmm - I would say it doesn't count. Why? Because it could have been an accounting entry. When I think of the rarest seated dollar, I think of the 70-S and not the 73-S. Simply because no one has ever seen a 73-S.....even tho there was a reported mintage.
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