This may explain, why it is seldom seen and in constant demand for collections.
But the mintage may be not the explanation: as wrote Uzdenikov in his book dedicated to mintage, mintage has nothing to do with rarity: there are common coins with small, sometimes ridiculously small mintage and there are rarities with mintage in millions. Most probably the last is our case: the given mintage is not for the year on the coin.
It is very simple. When a collector feels that the price for coin is underestimated it is very rare seen on sale. But when a price just right, it is in constant preposition.
is essentially in less quantities on preposition, which means, that collectors believe that the estimation is too low and do not in hurry to get rid of their treasures.
Though most probably the definitions are necessary to understand properly, what does it mean, “the rarest year” and “don't think this is a very rare coin.”