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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2314882, member: 19463&quot;]We never can get across the fact of ancient coins.&nbsp; A Lincoln cent with mintage under a half a million is a great rarity.&nbsp; PCGS has slabbed over 2000 mint state 1909s VDB rarities (if I read their site correctly).&nbsp; An ancient defined as a great rarity could be defined as one where every known example could be held in one very small hand.&nbsp; The fact that an ancient is known from only one or a few copies means nothing unless that rarity is matched by demand for that type.&nbsp; Almost any specialist has at least one coin that may be the only surviving example exactly like that.&nbsp; I have shown a couple here and no one cares.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is now thought that the number of EID MAR denarii is about 100 in all grades.&nbsp; If we use that as a definition of a rare ancient (100 known), how many rare coin types are there? I don&#039;t know but consider 10,000 a reasonable guess.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes, I pulled that number out of thin air.&nbsp; Give me a more reasonable guess based on scientific study.&nbsp; Someone must have written on this before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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