What's the rarest coin you own?

I was just wondering, what is the rarest coin some of the forum members here own?

For me, as far as I know, it's either the 96 Ratti coin from the Pyu city-state of Hailin, which is a 93 on the Numista rarity index:

N#259078

Or this Tianqi Tongbao from the reign of Emperor Tianqi of the late Ming Dynasty, which is an 83:

N#43969

I've got some exonumia which are ‘rarer’ than the Tianqi Tongbao, but they're not coins, strictly speaking … and are a lot more recent.

 

For me, it's a coin I still don't have in my collection!

Sjoelund

For me, it's a coin I still don't have in my collection!

Honhonhonho! 🤣

The coin in my profile picture was minted in the XIII or XIV century and has an estimated (surviving) population of somewhere between 24 and 120 pieces.

DanzigCoins

The coin in my profile picture was minted in the XIII or XIV century and has an estimated (surviving) population of somewhere between 24 and 120 pieces.

Could you please send the link to it? I am curious.

My rarest coin is this:

N#328519

With score of 95 on Numista.

Ma9nWaRr10

DanzigCoins

The coin in my profile picture was minted in the XIII or XIV century and has an estimated (surviving) population of somewhere between 24 and 120 pieces.

Could you please send the link to it? I am curious.

 

This is the best auction record I could find. Don't have the catalogues mentioning it.

https://onebid.pl/pl/monety-polska-brakteat-lilia-heraldyczna/470811

Ma9nWaRr10

My rarest coin is this:

N#328519

With score of 95 on Numista.

Nice coin from a very difficult issuer. Congrats!

Using the NRI to gauge actual rarity is quite useless. A high NRI can mean many things without context:

• the coin is genuinely rare and there are simply to few specimens out there for members to collect
• the coin page is new and/or the coin was issued recently, and members simply haven't had the time to add it or get one for their collection
• the coin is from a fringe region that is seldom collected, the coin is unpopular or out of expensive material many collectors can't or don't want to buy

I looked into my collection and I also found this coin from 1762 with a score of 97. The mintage was 180,000, but the surviving population oscilates about 3,600. Mine was sadly made into jewellery.

N#177802

Idolenz

Using the NRI to gauge actual rarity is quite useless. A high NRI can mean many things without context:

• the coin is genuinely rare and there are simply to few specimens out there for members to collect
• the coin page is new and/or the coin was issued recently, and members simply haven't had the time to add it or get one for their collection
• the coin is from a fringe region that is seldom collected, the coin is unpopular or out of expensive material many collectors can't or don't want to buy

I just wanna see some rare coins that I didn't know about before, dude

davide_melia

I was just wondering, what is the rarest coin some of the forum members here own?

For me, as far as I know, it's either the 96 Ratti coin from the Pyu city-state of Hailin, which is a 93 on the Numista rarity index:

N#259078

Or this Tianqi Tongbao from the reign of Emperor Tianqi of the late Ming Dynasty, which is an 83:

N#43969

I've got some exonumia which are ‘rarer’ than the Tianqi Tongbao, but they're not coins, strictly speaking … and are a lot more recent.

 

Wow! I didnt see the Pyu City coin. It is amazing! 

Turi

Ma9nWaRr10

My rarest coin is this:

N#328519

With score of 95 on Numista.

Nice coin from a very difficult issuer. Congrats!

Thank you! Mine is also in a very very nice shape.

Unfortunately I stopped collecting medieval coins, but few very nice examples are still in my collection.

Thank you for providing the link. Definitely a very interesting coin!

Idolenz

Using the NRI to gauge actual rarity is quite useless. A high NRI can mean many things without context:

• the coin is genuinely rare and there are simply to few specimens out there for members to collect
• the coin page is new and/or the coin was issued recently, and members simply haven't had the time to add it or get one for their collection
• the coin is from a fringe region that is seldom collected, the coin is unpopular or out of expensive material many collectors can't or don't want to buy

Yes, unfortunanetly it is not a very useful thing because of the reasons you mentined, but I think it could be used for measuring the  rarity of older coins.

Turi

davide_melia

I was just wondering, what is the rarest coin some of the forum members here own?

For me, as far as I know, it's either the 96 Ratti coin from the Pyu city-state of Hailin, which is a 93 on the Numista rarity index:

N#259078

Or this Tianqi Tongbao from the reign of Emperor Tianqi of the late Ming Dynasty, which is an 83:

N#43969

I've got some exonumia which are ‘rarer’ than the Tianqi Tongbao, but they're not coins, strictly speaking … and are a lot more recent.

 

Wow! I didnt see the Pyu City coin. It is amazing! 

I never even HEARD of the Pyu city-states, and how they were the dominant people of what is now Myanmar before the Bamar even arrived in the area, until a few months ago. It's quite a thing to hold in one's hand - that this is the work of a largely-forgotten people and culture.

Not coins, but here are my rarest banknotes:

N#381420 this beautiful 1850s 3 dollar bill of The Merchants and Planters Bank of Georgia.

N#377469 I also have this note dated 1965, which is the rarest of its variants. I managed to snag it at a steal of $70.

Voided_Username01

Not coins, but here are my rarest banknotes:

 

N#381420 this beautiful 1850s 3 dollar bill of The Merchants and Planters Bank of Georgia.

 

N#377469 I also have this note dated 1965, which is the rarest of its variants. I managed to snag it at a steal of $70.

I was just thinking - I'd love to get my hands on some CSA currency, or something from one of those states, but it would be way out of the usual scope of my collection (British Empire/Commonwealth/South-East Asia/China stuff, mostly).

The ‘Ceylon’ note reminds me of Myanmar money a little.