Share The Rarest Coin/Coins In Your Collection.

http://goccf.com/t/360729
http://coppercoins.com/lincoln/dies...ie_state=mds
I also have found one 1988-D RDV-006
John1

Consider collecting U.S. colonial coins by variety where a population of 1000 is considered utterly common. Most all attributed varieties have populations fewer than 1000. Their collector base is much smaller than for Federal coins making them still affordable even for examples with fewer than 100 known.
With regard to U.S. coins consider also Half Cents. Their total mintage for all years is fewer than key dates of latter series. With exonomia, tokens fewer than ten known often sold for under $100. If you want rarity try collecting any of these fascinating series.

Cool idea for a thread. I look forward to the show.

Very nice

Just a note of caution. Responding to this question on another forum, is what led to our sizeable burglary about 15 yrs.

ago. Use your judgement wisely.

I've had some doubts about this coin, but I compared it to the few auction examples I found, and couldn't find any inconsistencies.
(This one, in particular, looks like it might even be an obverse die match.)

I apologize for photo quality; either the coin has darkened considerably since July 2017 (when the photos below were taken), or I lucked out into a particularly bright sunny day back then, but one way or another, my later photo attempts sucked at contrast.

Ironically enough, this only cost me $7 (or so), and (arguably) wasn't even a deliberate cherrypick...



Elbing, Swedish occupation of, solidus, 1657.

Obverse: CAROL GVST D G R, crowned CG monogram within inner circle
Reverse: SOLIDVS PRVSSIAE 57, arms of Elbing in cartouche within inner circle

KM# 65 (listed as "rare" - no price given), Numista 96629 (rarity 97, which means that I'm the only member who has it), Kopicki 9655 (R7, estimated 4-6 examples known)



It's a bit hilarious how I picked this up. I went through the $7 per coin (...well, $7-ish, I forgot the exact figure) bargain bin, this coin caught my eye, I looked at the legends - "Carl Gustav of Prussia? Hey, wait, that can't be right..."

So I bought it as an interesting puzzle to figure out, entirely unaware of the rarity.

For comparison, this mildly misattributed example sold for about $150 in 2017; this one (the Numista photo) sold for about $500 in 2012. Both seem to be in better condition than my coin, admittedly.

And for the record, yes, I cross-checked again with a PDF copy of Kopicki, and this is 9655 and R7.


...I vaguely recall having been told that this coin was supposedly sent to the Volgina stamp shop (where I bought it) by Vasily, then of Hobby Market.
If so, that would totally fit what I know of Vasily's shop... that place had a lot of scarce-to-rare (mostly ancient) coins, and the owner could hardly care less about most of them. It was (and probably still is) heaven for the wannabe cherrypicker.