Modern world coins - affordable key dates or low mintages

Hello,

I would like to get a bit more familiar with some of the low mintage or key date modern coins from around the globe. Please share one from your part of the world, that really stands out. Let's try for no duplicates under this topic. If they could all be under 500,000 mintage, that would be great, but, there are no restrictions.

Country, denomination, year, mintage and if possible, link to coin in the Numista catalogue.

Thanks, I'll throw the first one out.

Here is a coin that many of us have or have seen, however, not many have this particular year...

Poland, 20 zł Nowotko, 1983, 152,000 minted
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2074.html

Most Pacific Islands coins are affordable but low mintage.  A few stick out above the herd though.

Fiji 1978 50 Cent Coin

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4152.html

Mintage of only 4,000 in that year but the value in UNC condition is only $5 which is about the same as the other years for that KM number which have mintages around 1,000,0000

  United Kingdom 1 Penny 1951  (bronze normal coin, not silver Maundy)
Mintage 120,000
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces7604.html

http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/world-coin-prices.aspx?category=42479&worldcoinid=122061&FromSearch=true

 Here's mine:

Spain, 50 centimos, 1869*69, 450.000, https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18367.html
nice design, birth of peseta, relatively low mintage, affordable for a silver coin with 150 years

This Cypriot coin:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12471.html
Mintage 300,000 and last mintage of Victoria.

US, 1 Cent, 1955 (proof), 378,200. Can buy for a few dollars USD.
 https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces908.html

The Jersey series of "Parish" pound coins was an interesting series...
- The first modern coin series to feature each sub-region of the issuing state, pre-dating (for example) the Canadian Provincial quarters of 1992
- Mintages of 10,000 per coin!! Silver proofs exist with an even lower mintage.
- Krause books these coins (again, mintage of 10,000) at $3.25 to $3.50 each in UNC!

I am trying to complete this set before anyone else catches on!!

One of the most common coins of Numista. But if you found that one of 30!

1983

 https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces936.html

 I doubt it's affordable but I post it because I don't think anyone EVER takes the time to look through their bulk coins for this.

  I don't understand how coins with low mintage are so undervalued? I guess people just don't collect Fiji?

Απόσπασμα: redsmithstudiosOne of the most common coins of Numista. But if you found that one of 30!

1983

 https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces936.html

 I doubt it's affordable but I post it because I don't think anyone EVER takes the time to look through their bulk coins for this.

  I don't understand how coins with low mintage are so undervalued? I guess people just don't collect Fiji?

I have 1984, 1985, 1986 but I don't have 1983.

Απόσπασμα: redsmithstudiosI don't understand how coins with low mintage are so undervalued? I guess people just don't collect Fiji?

World coins are fairly unpopular at coin shows and shops near me, treated like dead fish.  The prevailing attitude seems to be "If it's not American silver or American gold, it's crap".

They're missing out. More for the rest of us.  :)

Απόσπασμα: CeruleanThey're missing out. More for the rest of us.  :)

F___ ya!   

Here's a couple for those with a taste for speculation:

UK Sixpence 1952, KM 875, mintage 1,012,999

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces877.html

It's rather amateurishly, misleadingly and embarrassingly described in the Numista database as "rare". It isn't but it is borderline scarce and can be picked up quite cheaply.

US 10 Cents, 1996W, KM 195a, mintage 1,457,000

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces53.html
 
Yes, non-Americans, there is a mint at West Point. In 1996 a small run of business strike dimes was produced  there for inclusion in the mint sets for that year. As the 1996W dime is a genuine business strike coin there is a significant demand for them. So much so in fact that the single dime is often sold at prices which exceed that of the entire mint set. Again, these can be picked up for little cost if you are patient. I have two of them, both from bulk lots of unc. dimes bought for just over face value.

Huh, I've got marked that I have two of those as well.  This is one of those situations where I don't even recall having them.  Think I'm going to have to revisit those tonight.

I didn't know there was a mint at west point? what else have they made?

David, they normally strike commemorative junk and bullion coins, I believe the 1996 dimes are the only example of a modern business strike produced at West Point.

Hello
lot of Panama coins in silver have few mintage and not so expensive, I have just got a 1967 medio balboa in proof for 8 dollar it's 20 000 mintage

Here are some examples from Sweden with a mintage less than 500,000.
Sweden 50 öre 1996, mintage 247,620
Sweden 50 öre 1997, mintage 69,995

Sweden 1 krona  1993, mintage 407,208
Sweden 1 krona  1995, mintage 499,758
Sweden 1 krona  1996, mintage 323,656

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6862.html

Sweden 5 kronor 1991 with mintmark U, mintage 25,000

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2752.html

Sweden 10 kronor 1999, mintage 81,430

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2750.html

I finally got one of the 10,000-mintage Jersey Parish pounds for just $3.50 CAD

Απόσπασμα: pnightingaleDavid, they normally strike commemorative junk and bullion coins, I believe the 1996 dimes are the only example of a modern business strike produced at West Point.

They're the only business strikes to carry the W mint mark. West Point produced cents in the 1970s and 1980s, but without mint marks, making them indistinguishable from Philadelphia issues.

Costa Rica 2 centimos 1903 mintage of a little over 600,000, small CuNi coin not that hard to find and relatively inexpensive.