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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Howard Posner, post: 2072889, member: 73504&quot;]Thanks for the reply. I asked the wrong questions. What I was really trying to say was that the RIC volumes, when published, represented a pretty good attempt to locate&nbsp; as many of the known examples of each coin as possible to assess rarity values at that time. In the intervening years many more coins have been discovered and/or published and/or located. My question was whether any one had an idea how many previously unrecorded or known Tetrarchy silver argenteus have come to light since RIC VI was published. While&nbsp; thousands of billon and copper&nbsp; coins are being recovered via metal detecting I don&#039;t recall&nbsp; reading of many (any?) tetrarchy argenteus/aureus hoards or individual coins in better than fair condition being dug up. There may have been some private collections&nbsp; come to light, but I don&#039;t know.</p><p>I know that any figure cannot be&nbsp; comprehensive, and that it is easy to discount it completely on that basis, but statistical and frequency analysis do regularly use that level of data collection to estimate patterns and make reasonably accurate predictions ( think of political polling or pollen analysis).</p><p>The argenteus rarity values compared to billon follis are of interest to me because of</p><p>1) what they might say about decisions at local mint level on how to turn bullion silver into coin at the time of Diocletian&#039;s price edict, and</p><p>2) Whether the answer to 1) can shed light on how far west the edict was actively enforced between 301 and 305 CE.</p><p><br /></p><p>thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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