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What do you think is the rarest pin?

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What do you think is the rarest pin?
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Hey guys,
I was wandering what you think the rarest pin out there is, and what is the rarest pin in your collection.

I will start:

In my opinion some of the rarest pin are the very old Seven Dwarfs one that are in the front pages of the Disneyana Book.
My rarest pin(pins) in my collection have to either be my DCL Mickey Ornament or my Lilo and Stitch LE 4 pin!:stitch:

Im curious to hear your opinions!

-Erik
 
I THINK there are some LE 1 pins out there, Jessica pins spring to mind in this category... someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong :lol:

Rarest pin in my collection... probably my Snow White PODM (if this is running on rarity/expensiveness of scenes, not LE number :lol:) :) Rarest LE is my LE 125 Jasmine pins... :)
 
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Yeah, I'm going to go with LE1 pins as well. And there are really quite a few, at one point DS.com used to release a set of 3 pins, all the same pin but each in a different metal, silver, gold and black. And my rarest pin is an LE50.
 
Rare is a funny thing... there are rare pins that were released in the ordinary methods by Disney - ie Bought at the Parks, via online, given at an event.

Then, there are the strange oddities that are sold at event auctions, found on pin boards and other places -such as cancelled projects and one of a kind designs and prototypes.

Excluding the oddities (2nd category) - I would have to save the rarest Disney (issued in a normal way) would be the 65 year cast service award pin (and one of them sits in the case at Walt Disney Imagineering).
 
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I think a lot also factors in with whether they were released 'in the pin community' or not. Take some of the cast member gift pins. For being releases of upwards of 2000-10,000 some you just don't see being traded since most went to non-pin traders

Take Pin 88514: WDW - Cast Exclusive - Working Day October 1, 2011 - 40th Anniversary Pin Set for being given to every cast at Poly/Contemporary/Magic Kingdom/Fort Wilderness there are 2 people trading it on Pinpics..

I think that's why some pins like the early piece of history sets are harder to get as it was on the rack for awhile so non 'community' people bought them leaving less in the eventual 'trade pool' vs now I'd say 99% of say the mulan PoMH is in the 'community' so it'll always be easier to trade.

-em
 
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