Lowest mintage circulating coin I have is a U.S. 1885 One Dollar “Large Indian Head” Type 3, KM# 86. Mintage 11,156. 11,007, or 10,700 depending on who you reference.
This is the lowest “coin” in my collection, although it is listed in exonumia. Any other coins I have would probably start around 500, which I would have to find
For circulating coins, I have one from Aargau that Numista listed as 1,000 minted, but someone has apparently removed that number from the site. Maybe it wasn't accurate. So maybe a 1938 20 Lire from San Marino that lists as 2,500?
Just finished crawling through all my coins listed on here. I was surprised to see so many without mintage listed. Of the ones that had numbers, these are my lowest:
There are some Notgeld/ early modern coins I have that I know have ultra low mintage , but there is no mintage listed here . Of the coins that I have that have a listed mintage , these are the lowest
My lowest minted circulating coin is a Belize 5 cents from 1943- Mintage is just 40 000
Just finished crawling through all my coins listed on here. I was surprised to see so many without mintage listed. Of the ones that had numbers, these are my lowest:
Some great coins there! I would love to own a 1916D Mercury dime one day.
My lowest non-circulating coin mintage is my Australian 1938 proof half penny (mintage 100, 78 sold - the rest destroyed)
I think my lowest circulating coin mintage would be my Australian 1923 half penny (mintage 15k)
that is insanely low wow
Thank you. I do also own a 1938 Australian proof penny which had a mintage of 100, but 94 of them were sold, as opposed to the 78 half pennies sold. Therefore in terms of survivability, the half penny is slightly scarcer due to there being less in existence.
My lowest non-circulating is this here, the proof one, and I’m not sure about circulating. I feel pretty lucky to have something with a montage as low as 50, especially since I pulled it out of a cheap bin for 25 cents!
My lowest non-circulating is this here, the proof one, and I’m not sure about circulating. I feel pretty lucky to have something with a montage as low as 50, especially since I pulled it out of a cheap bin for 25 cents!
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces28753.html
that's insanely low! currently the lowest on this post
My lowest non-circulating is this here, the proof one, and I’m not sure about circulating. I feel pretty lucky to have something with a montage as low as 50, especially since I pulled it out of a cheap bin for 25 cents!
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces28753.html
Nice one! You can’t go wrong with 25 cents for a piece like that.
Regards,
IM94
Topic moved to "Free discussion"(ZacUK, 9 Jan 2024, 19:14)
This one - Gold, less than 300 minted and 85 given to Maori tribal members, its also my most valuable coin by a long shot ($6,500).
Actual coin that circulated
I don't know exact numbers, but just a couple of thousand of these Maundy coins were issued each year, meaning that only a few would have circulated. Maybe 2,000 of this 1825 penny?
Where we have actual numbers and are not relying on guesses and speculations, this Fijian 1938 Florin had just 20,000 minted.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I was thinking that I didnt have many low mintage stuff, and frankly my collection is so disorganised I can't be bothered to actually check, but the cuban coin reminded me I have a couple low mintage cuban pesos!
I have a soft spot for origami paper cranes.
Read or watch about "Sadako Sasaki and the Thousand Paper Cranes".
Spread a little peace and happiness wherever you go :)
in my possession looks like a unique till now. It took 4 months to be reviewed and added at the Numista catalog, despite of decision of His Majesty to remove it from the catalog ( https://en.numista.com/forum/topic54419.html#p450101 ), the community demanded it to be present.
Most probably, for French speakers, who minted it, it was easy to confuse dies of Arabic side so they put by mistake the Arabic side from previous year. I keep it and proud of it as an excellent example of illiteracy of modern people who should due to their duty read and write, but they do not!
in my possession looks like a unique till now. It took 4 months to be reviewed and added at the Numista catalog, despite of decision of His Majesty to remove it from the catalog ( https://en.numista.com/forum/topic54419.html#p450101 ), the community demanded it to be present.
Most probably, for French speakers, who minted it, it was easy to confuse dies of Arabic side so they put by mistake the Arabic side from previous year. I keep it and proud of it as an excellent example of illiteracy of modern people who should due to their duty read and write, but they do not!
I belive mine is N#24709. It's not really a coin per se, but still low mintage.
Marijuana plants on a coin?
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I belive mine is N#24709. It's not really a coin per se, but still low mintage.
I remember seeing one of these for sale years ago, supposedly it actually smells like pot. I was slightly tempted, but it was pricy and I didnt have much money, so I opted for something else.
I belive mine is N#24709. It's not really a coin per se, but still low mintage.
Marijuana plants on a coin?
Yeah, it even smells a little like it. 😅
It has a cool shape, though. 👍
Get pulled over by the police and show them a collection of these coins :P
Although I am curious why Benin made a coin of it since Cannabis is illegal in Benin. Would've made more sense in Jamaica. Anyone know the story/reason?
Get pulled over by the police and show them a collection of these coins :P
Although I am curious why Benin made a coin of it since Cannabis is illegal in Benin. Would've made more sense in Jamaica. Anyone know the story/reason?
Part of their Famous Plants of the World series. And, yes, they are perfumed.
The real question is, does Benin even have any say over what's on their coins? 191 coins since 1975 and not a single circulating one.
Get pulled over by the police and show them a collection of these coins :P
Although I am curious why Benin made a coin of it since Cannabis is illegal in Benin. Would've made more sense in Jamaica. Anyone know the story/reason?
The real question is, does Benin even have any say over what's on their coins? 191 coins since 1975 and not a single circulating one.
A friend of mine who has been an antiques dealer for over 30 years always says that mintage doesn't matter because every single collector's item has a unique value and rarity defined by how many of them are available for purchase, how many are still left, how rare the item is in its grade, supply and demand, how nice the toning looks and so on.
Catalog values are just for reference, real value is what the coin will eventually sell for and that can go up and down.
Depending on the location you can even set a higher price for, say a US coin in a region where they are hard to come by and expensive to ship across the world so the location can affect its rarity too.
How rare would a common penny be in a Martian space colony?
Doesn't really matter if hundreds of millions of them exist, and vice versa if a space colony had its own coinage it would be worth its face value where it circulates but if you brought it back to earth it would be a rarity no matter what the mintage is.
I belive mine is N#24709. It's not really a coin per se, but still low mintage.
Marijuana plants on a coin?
Yeah, it even smells a little like it. 😅
It has a cool shape, though. 👍
Get pulled over by the police and show them a collection of these coins :P
Although I am curious why Benin made a coin of it since Cannabis is illegal in Benin. Would've made more sense in Jamaica. Anyone know the story/reason?
I've lived in Benin, weed is illegal there only on paper and even the cops smoke it and even underage kids sell it as a family business.
Close to my house there was a straw hut village where old women would brew cannabis moonshine and sell “ties” to support themselves and their underage kids would work to serve the customers who came over to buy some sticky icky.
I mean, they even sell tramadol-laced coffee in the Dantokpa market for a low low price of 100 CFA extra lol
One police officer told me he makes about 300k CFA a month in bribes while his actual salary is less than 100k.
Get pulled over by the police and show them a collection of these coins :P
Although I am curious why Benin made a coin of it since Cannabis is illegal in Benin. Would've made more sense in Jamaica. Anyone know the story/reason?
Part of their Famous Plants of the World series. And, yes, they are perfumed.
The real question is, does Benin even have any say over what's on their coins? 191 coins since 1975 and not a single circulating one.
Benin has a serious shortage of coins but it's intentional.
Cfa notes are 500, 1000, 2000, 5000 and 10,000 and only 500 and 1000 are easy to get change for,even for 2000 you might struggle to find change.
500 cfa note was introduced in 2014 because for some reason the coins just don't circulate as widely.
In markets you will find vendors selling 100 cfa coins and people are buying them because otherwise their business will suffer as they won't be able to provide change.
I think it might be intentional as the coin business is a big deal there and you can't just go to a bank and get a bag of coins, in fact most people don't have a bank account.
Banking is done using phone credit, people send and receive phone credit and you can even withdraw it from credit vendor on the street.
there was a rumor going on in the market that some corrupt bank officials had established this shortage on purpose to make a business out of selling small change.
To my understanding all of the coins and notes are minted in France and are then shipped to Africa and France doesn't really care about corruption down the line.
I mean any corruption only further strengthens their ability to control the economies of their former colonies.
If you want to start minting and selling your own Benin commem coins I'm sure you can do that by bribing some bigwig and nobody would ask a thing, I'm pretty sure this is what's going on with these coins, somebody making a bit of side income in their administrative position.
Nigeria doesn't have any problem with change as their largest denomination is 1000 naira which is only about 40 euro cents in the black market, Nigeria has no coins in circulation either, it's all paper cash.
I was in Nigeria during the election period cash crisis and I was only able to obtain 100 naira note, pic related, this was worth only 14 euros at the time:
I saved 3 consecutive notes as a memory.
It's unbelievable how broken the currency system there is.
