Coin quantities

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erdvilla

Joined: 10 Oct 2013
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Posted: 1 Oct 2014, 23:03 #

Is there a way -for a normal user like myself- to know how many coins are registered by users as in their collections?

I mean, not to know who has a specific coin, but to know how many of each year for each coin are there marked as in someone's collection. An example:

X Coin
Minted in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 with their respective official mintages and a Numista rarity of XX

What I want to know is this data:

2000 / 100 000 minted / 200 in users' collections
2001 / 100 000 minted / 180 in users' collections
2002 / 100 000 minted / 2 in users' collections
2003 / 25 000 minted / 500 in users' collections

This could be helpful understanding why some years that appear common can be quite valuable when compared with the rest or even shorter mintage years but in a time the coin was popular so it got saved by more people.

I am curious about this because of coins like this one:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1081.html

1986 year seems common and with 10 million made, not compared to 1988, but reasonably close to 1885. But 1986 surprisingly has a value of 40 times the other years. And if you are able -like me- to buy that coin by the kilo you will indeed be in a predicament because that year won't show up. Or if you a re lucky just 1, like the one in my collection that came from a 10 kilo bag of 20s.

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