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<p>[QUOTE="Marshall, post: 7661134, member: 21705"]Rarity is a funny thing. Variety rarity is the most commonly considered. But the scales, even while identical visually, vary from series to series. I deal in early copper, so I'm familiar with the Sheldon scale. It is an 8 level scale which has subsequently been modified via use of +,_, and - to indicate precise numeric estimates of known, available to collector, quantities for the variety. </p><p><br /></p><p>But some scales used on other series or World Coins use different scales and different quantities. So it's important to understand which scale is being used.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Sheldon R8 is NC or Not Collectable. In different 10 point scale system, R8 might be the equivalent of a Sheldon R5.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now to the different question of rarity of a sub variety or Die Stage/State within a variety, it can use the same scale, but it's affect on value is often quite different.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a S-220. S-220 is an R3 variety or 200-500 estimated survivors. It is also (I believe) Die State I with Reverse Noyes Die State A (Perfect, without evidence of the Reverse Arc crack of State B) unseen by Noyes at the time of publication (2015) of his 1798-1801 Volume. Thus it would be R8 and possibly R8+ as a die state/stage. But I promise you the price will not reflect anything close to an R8 variety premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316869[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marshall, post: 7661134, member: 21705"]Rarity is a funny thing. Variety rarity is the most commonly considered. But the scales, even while identical visually, vary from series to series. I deal in early copper, so I'm familiar with the Sheldon scale. It is an 8 level scale which has subsequently been modified via use of +,_, and - to indicate precise numeric estimates of known, available to collector, quantities for the variety. But some scales used on other series or World Coins use different scales and different quantities. So it's important to understand which scale is being used. A Sheldon R8 is NC or Not Collectable. In different 10 point scale system, R8 might be the equivalent of a Sheldon R5. Now to the different question of rarity of a sub variety or Die Stage/State within a variety, it can use the same scale, but it's affect on value is often quite different. Here is a S-220. S-220 is an R3 variety or 200-500 estimated survivors. It is also (I believe) Die State I with Reverse Noyes Die State A (Perfect, without evidence of the Reverse Arc crack of State B) unseen by Noyes at the time of publication (2015) of his 1798-1801 Volume. Thus it would be R8 and possibly R8+ as a die state/stage. But I promise you the price will not reflect anything close to an R8 variety premium. [ATTACH=full]1316869[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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