Anyone knows where do the mintages listed for this type come from?
They sound implausibly small. I know this type is supposed to be uncommon, but I doubt it's that rare.
(Incidentally, if these figures are correct, that makes it the lowest mintage coin in my collection - even lower than this Egyptian type, whose mintage, incidentally, I also disbelieve, because of the low Numista rarity.)
NGC World Coin Price Guide gives completely different mintages here (444,000 for my 1849 coin), but I do not know where these are from either.
For what it's worth, NGC has the same mintage for the Egyptian coin as Numista. I think I checked, way back when I originally identified my example of the Egyptian coin (a few weeks ago), and found nothing explicitly contradicting the listed mintage (as implausible as it is), so just put it aside as one of those weird cases where a coin is a lot more common than one would expect from the mintage (and/or the official mintage figure being very wrong).
But yes, hundreds of Numista members having that type listed does make a five-digit mintage fairly unlikely.
For the Swedish coin, however, there are other mintage figures elsewhere online (likely originating from Krause, but I hadn't actually checked the book). For all I know, Numista is right and NGC is wrong (it had happened before) - I'm just wondering how rare my bargain bin find is in reality.
(It was funny - the bin was mostly full of assorted British pennies from the 1890s and later. I do not collect higher-grade [above VG, that is] British pennies - not as expensive as these were, anyway [the bin was labeled 120 rubles, i.e. about $2] - so I just looked through the bin for anything that didn't look like a British penny.
However, when I found the 4 skilling, I immediately recognized that the coin is a bit unusual [as in "I'm pretty sure I hadn't seen this large copper type before"], so I asked if I could have it for the listed price - because I wasn't sure that it didn't fall into the bin from somewhere else.
So the dealer said "oh, right, it's a 4 skilling", in a tone that suggested it was the most common thing in the world. I answered that, well, I could see it's a 4 skilling, and ended up buying the coin after all [as well as an 1835 half anna from British India, which I made a thread about in Coin Identification].
Silly story. And if the coin is really that rare - especially silly story.)
