Can you name a coin for which there are no certified uncirculated examples?
dan1ecu
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The 1854-O $20 Liberty is one (according to coinfacts.com). The highest-grade certified examples are AU.
Can you name some others?
Dan
Can you name some others?
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In the capped bust half series, the 1812/1 lg 8 and the 1817/4.
Early bust- 1806 knob 6, no stem, and both varieties of the 1795 half w/ siver plug
(We are talking about all services here, yes?)
jonathan
The 1859-s, 61-s are still unslabbed in UNC last I checked. The 58-s and 60-s have one low end UNC I think...which imo are not technical uncs. The other dates are all accounted for. This assumes both services. All of the above dates are not yet slabbed unc by PCGS.
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AAaahhhh...
I thank my lucky stars that I can be associated with that gem! Truely the most important moment in my numismatic voyage to date (kinda sad when considering the uninformed and miniscule role I played hehe).
But then I thought of:
1894-S dime
Or, how about (for large mintages) the 1999-S half dollar? (and dozens of other modern proof-only issues)
They are supposedly rare in UNC, and even when encapsulated, they are not properly attributed.
Now, I'm just sitting here typing, and threw this one out.
Don't bury me...........
Pete
any proof only issue
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The highest graded is AU58
(which is also the lowest graded
Ralph
Good catch. A technicality, but true enough.
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$5's - 72 and 78
$10's - 70,72,73,76,77,78,79 and 82
$20's - 70 and 71
Several other dates have 1 only circulated example.
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The highest graded is AU58
(which is also the lowest graded >>
Actually, this coin lost all of its wear when it was regraded MS62 by PCGS.
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Only because it hasn't been submitted. The Eliasberg coin is a choice unc by today's standards.
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several more in this series exist in period 2
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$5s - 1858-S, 1861-S, 1866-S No Motto, 1866-S w/Motto, 1867-S, 1870-S, 1874-S
$10s - 1855-S, 1858-S, 1859-S, 1860-S, 1862-S, 1864-S, 1865-S Regular Date (the example on NGCs Pop Report is an overdate), 1866-S w/Motto, 1867-S, 1868-S, 1871-S, 1874-S, 1876-S...
Of course, there are a ton of dates that have one or two MS61 or MS62 examples floating around - coins that might not grade BU if they were cracked out.
I didn't look outside these two denominations, although I suspect the only $3 is the 1870-S...
Anyone have a good guess as to why S-Mint $5s and $10s are so rare in Unc?
edited to add: After reading all the previous responses to this post, I have to point out that the San Francisco Mint produced the vast majority of coins mentioned by people. Is it a coincidence?!?
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how about because paper money wasn't used in CAL much before 1880? These coins were' working' coins for the western US. Trade with China was with Trade Dollars so the S mint 5g & 10g stayed at home and were the workhorses of California.
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1817/4 and 1853-O No Arrows Half Dollar
1793 Strawberry leaf cent.
I disagree. The 1861-s is "fairly available" in lower circ grades. In fact is is not even in the top 6 of "S" mint quarters. There are probably 200-400 known of this date. I've always felt it was overrated in grades below AU. But today, XF's seem to be tougher than I thought. The 66-s and 67-s are far tougher overall in rarity and their existing pops are around 125-250 known imo.
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True enough, there are uncs of the 66s and 67s. Probably a dozen or so on the 66-s but only 3 "real uncs" to my knowledge on the
67-s (2 MS64's and 1 - MS67...Norweb, Stack, and Eliasberg). And 3 isn't a whole lot either. There is also only one true gem 66-s to my knowlege...far above the quality of the remaining uncs. I owned both of those coins at the same time in 1988. I sort of liken the gems of each of the 66-s & 67-s as the equivalent of an UNC 61-s should it ever appear (and it likely will someday). The 67-s also shows up very infrequently above VF25 which in my mind makes it doubly attractive. The 67-s was unheralded in UNC even up until the Eliasberg MS64 piece sold for a paltry $4000. Later brought closer to $20K at the Richmond sale which said it came a long way in only 7 years.
While no true uncs of the 58-s, 59-s, 60-s, and 61-s appear to exist at this time, only the 60-s is a rarer date. I've always felt the other 3 quite overrated and for years they brought prices similar or higher than the far rarer 60-s. The 69-s quarter for example is similar in rarity to those other 3, and you won't find anyone claiming the 69-s is a rarity in circ. However in truly orginal gem grade it becomes a winner as even with a "pop of 2" or so, I am not aware of a gem
69-s quarter. Curiously, for all but the 1865-s, each date in the 1864-s to 1869-s run of S quarters, there is at most one honest "all there" gem of each date to my knowledge. I think there are 2
1865-s's. One of my wishes years back was to build a gem/choice unc set of S mint quarters from 1864 to 1872. 25 years ago I never realized...or believed that all of them did indeed exist in gem.
roadrunner
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mreureka,
the 1854-S half eagle of course. Only because it hasn't been submitted. The Eliasberg coin is a choice unc by today's standards.
I am sort of happy by this news. It will allow me to see a nice example one day if I am lucky. Talk about a key date for me ;-)