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Cerulean
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Posted - 06/05/2008 : 13:14:22

Here's a good article I found online. I thought y'all might enjoy it.

http://www.houstoncoinclub.org/articles/The%20Phantom%20Eight.htm

Excerpt: "Seven regular issue U.S. coin dates are unknown, although mint records report a mintage. Another coin is without a reported mintage, but private mint correspondence indicates one or more to have been struck. The possibility of an unexpected find of a great rarity is part of the enduring appeal of coin collecting. In 1978 a previously unknown 1870-S half dime was discovered in a junk box. No mint records known at that time indicated such a date to have been struck. Quite recently a new example of the extremely rare 1854-S half eagle came to light in California. The stories of the phantom eight are all different, making the possibility of a major find more likely for some than for others. They are described below in ascending date order."

RUNNING TOTAL
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16857 zincs (1982-2008) 75.4%
5346 coppers (1959-1982) 23.9%
110 wheats (1920-1958)
50 Canadian (1959-2007)
1 dime (2004)
1 foreign (2005)

Sorting Map: http://www.frappr.com/?a=constellation_map&mapid=68719599394
2008 First Finds: http://realcent.forumco.com/topic~TOPIC_ID~1716.asp
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