5 Dollars (XXVI Olympiad Cauldron)

The 1996 Olympic Cauldron $5 Gold — Scarce Because No One Wanted It

In 1996 the U.S. Mint bet that a coin-collecting nation would rush to buy a sixteen-coin set for the Atlanta Olympics. It didn't. Fewer than 10,000 collectors bought the uncirculated Cauldron $5 gold piece — one of the lowest mintages of any modern U.S. commemorative, and a number reached not by design but by indifference.