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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3523921, member: 76194"]If you can find at least 2-3 examples on sale at any given time, it's not rare. Might be uncommon, but definitely not rare. And if you can find more than seven or eight examples on sale at any time then it's a very common coin. Everything else you read in catalogs about Rarity is meaningless.</p><p><br /></p><p>But beware, just because it's rare it doesn't mean it's supposed to be expensive. Some provincial coinage during the crisis of the third century might be super rare or one of a kind, but you can find them on sale for $50 or $60. For a rare coin to be expensive it is not enough to be one of a handful.... there has to be a large enough demand for the coin that not everyone that truly needs to have one, has one. Otherwise it's just one of thousands of ultra rare coins at bargain prices. <b>Basically, don't let a dealer try to jack up the price on you just because a coin is "rare"</b>. Otherwise you'll pay $400 for a coin no one else will pay you more than $100 if you want to sell it later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3523921, member: 76194"]If you can find at least 2-3 examples on sale at any given time, it's not rare. Might be uncommon, but definitely not rare. And if you can find more than seven or eight examples on sale at any time then it's a very common coin. Everything else you read in catalogs about Rarity is meaningless. But beware, just because it's rare it doesn't mean it's supposed to be expensive. Some provincial coinage during the crisis of the third century might be super rare or one of a kind, but you can find them on sale for $50 or $60. For a rare coin to be expensive it is not enough to be one of a handful.... there has to be a large enough demand for the coin that not everyone that truly needs to have one, has one. Otherwise it's just one of thousands of ultra rare coins at bargain prices. [B]Basically, don't let a dealer try to jack up the price on you just because a coin is "rare"[/B]. Otherwise you'll pay $400 for a coin no one else will pay you more than $100 if you want to sell it later.[/QUOTE]
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