Okay, here we go, see if anyone can figure me out.
Hint #1- When I came to be, Rutherford B. Hayes was President of the United States.
Hint #2- Walter Breen in his "Encyclopedia of U. S. Coins" once claimed that only 10-12 of me survived. Although I am a bit rare, he was wrong, there are more of me than that number to have survived.
Hint #3- Good luck finding me in uncirculated condition. There may be one of me around in that grade, but probably not.
Hint #4- I have only one variety, called 1-A, of it my reverse has clash marks, same as described on my sibling of one year younger, meaning the same reverse die was used to strike both of us.
Hint #5- Okay, I was born the same year as the first year the New Orleans Mint began stiking coins again since ceasing operations at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Hint #6- I come from a good size family myself. I have 19 big cousins and 19 little cousins as well.
Hint #7- Depending on the grade, I can cost anywhere from around $3,500 to about $40,000.
Hint #8- My composition's atomic number is 79 and when they melted us down, it got up to 1947.52 degrees F.
Hint #9- I exist mostly in the grade of Very Fine.
Take a guess as to who I am
