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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2571544, member: 57495&quot;]This link will be useful for those interested specifically in the rarity of Severan silver coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://web3.forest.usf.edu/main/other/severan/coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://web3.forest.usf.edu/main/other/severan/coins/" rel="nofollow">http://web3.forest.usf.edu/main/other/severan/coins/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As part of a searchable database compiling data from &quot;fifty-seven silver hoards ranging in date from AD 198 to c. AD 270&quot;, it includes the coins from Reka Devnia and at least one other major Severan period hoard, the Shapwick Hoard of 1998 (mainly plentiful in coins of Septimius, with 5741 of them).&nbsp; The search results show occurrence by geographical region as well as the specific hoards.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] points out there were 88 specimens of the OP coin in the Reka Devnia Hoard.&nbsp; There were 75 specimens in the Shapwick Hoard.&nbsp; As a comparison, another popular and interesting Septimius type, the one with Dea Caelestis riding a lion, turns up with 201 in Reka Devnia, but &quot;only&quot; 42 in Shapwick.&nbsp; Still, we could say the type is clearly more common than the OP type.&nbsp; I suppose for something we could consider scarce, we&#039;re looking at numbers closer to 20.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking out for rarities will always be fun for some of us, but not always because we think they will make a coin worth more money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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