Here's a Game - Guess the Coin...

jmlanzaf

Business strike only issue. 19th century. Precious metal. This coin had a total mintage of less than 300,000. The survival rate was over 67% with over 95% of survivors in Mint State. What am I?

ricko

I have no idea.... I hope I have one though... Cheers, RickO

Shamika

Got to be a Morgan Dollar of some sort.

BustDMs

Sounds like a Commem.

BillJones

1885-CC Morgan Dollar ... Just a guess.

Overdate

Or maybe the 1881-CC Morgan dollar?

The 2011-S Silver Eagle might also technically qualify.

mannie gray

I was going to guess a CC dollar...was going to look up mintage numbers but too lazy frankly.

BillDugan1959

From the mintage number, the 1881-CC fits very neatly. But from the "95% of survivors" part, I'm not so certain.

Lordy, lordy, I hate spellchecker!

jmlanzaf

You guys are too smart. It is the 81-CC dollar based on PCGS Coinfacts information.

jmlanzaf

https://www.pcgs.com/books/silver-dollars/Chapter15Listings-047.aspx

jmlanzaf

@BillJones said:
1885-CC Morgan Dollar ... Just a guess.

85-CC Morgan would also qualify:

https://www.pcgs.com/books/silver-dollars/Chapter15Listings-082.aspx

Scootersdad

81-CC or 85-CC Morgan

MorganMan94

There are way too many options for this, almost every commemorative fits this category.

RockyMtnProspector

85-CC given low circulated remainder.

jmlanzaf

@MorganMan94 said:
There are way too many options for this, almost every commemorative fits this category.

Modern commem, yes. But those are really NCLT. Classic commems, not necessarily.

Perhaps a flawed question. Needs more limits.

MorganMan94

@jmlanzaf said:

@MorganMan94 said:
There are way too many options for this, almost every commemorative fits this category.

Modern commem, yes. But those are really NCLT. Classic commems, not necessarily.

Perhaps a flawed question. Needs more limits.

How would it not be classic commems? Other than Columbians, Stone Mountains, Bookers, and Washington-Carvers (a few dates) all have mintages of under 300,000 and almost all are mint state.

BillJones

@MorganMan94 said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@MorganMan94 said:
There are way too many options for this, almost every commemorative fits this category.

Modern commem, yes. But those are really NCLT. Classic commems, not necessarily.

Perhaps a flawed question. Needs more limits.

How would it not be classic commems? Other than Columbians, Stone Mountains, Bookers, and Washington-Carvers (a few dates) all have mintages of under 300,000 and almost all are mint state.

From this list I think that there are more circulated examples of the Colombian and Stone Mountain half Dollars than you might think.

MorganMan94

@BillJones said:

@MorganMan94 said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@MorganMan94 said:
There are way too many options for this, almost every commemorative fits this category.

Modern commem, yes. But those are really NCLT. Classic commems, not necessarily.

Perhaps a flawed question. Needs more limits.

How would it not be classic commems? Other than Columbians, Stone Mountains, Bookers, and Washington-Carvers (a few dates) all have mintages of under 300,000 and almost all are mint state.

From this list I think that there are more circulated examples of the Colombian and Stone Mountain half Dollars than you might think.

I agree, there is no way Columbians would be in this category but the others potentially could.
What I was saying is that all commemoratives (or a majority) other than those listed have mintages of under 300k.

BillDugan1959

Last two posters need to go see the optometrist - when the OP prefaced the comment with the phrase "Other than" it seems to me to cover exceptions for both higher mintages AND lower survival rates. I think the OP said it correctly.

dbldie55

How many of those commens were minted in the 19th century?