Set Description:
This set was finally completed on 19th of may 2019 after a hunt for more than 9 years for these rare coins. I purchased most of the coins in this set raw and some dates were even then impossible to find for many years.
These 1,556 grams, .999 Ag, 1/20 bullion quality libertads have every year very limited mintages and are much scarcer than the one ounce bullion coins, the oldest modern silver bullion coin first issued in 1982. The series of the fractional libertads starts in 1991 (with the introduction of the type II libertads).
These fractional coins seems to be almost impossible to obtain in perfect MS70 quality till 2011. They come in bags an rub together by hazard till they find caring owners. We have to see, wheather the collector base for these beautiful and challenging coins will increase in the future. Meanwhile I will continue to try upgrading the set, when opportunity comes.
Key dates are the years 1998 and 2007, but even the fractionals from the nineties are despite much higher reported mintages seldom found. A lot of them must be melted or lost during time. In 2012 no 1/20oz BU had been minted for unknown reasons. 2012was a year on top, where no fractional proof libertads were minted.
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