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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3524055, member: 19463"]Thanks to Sulla80 for this link. All interested should read it. The concept can only be applied to all coins if you consider the factors spelled out in this well thought out piece. I particularly like the idea that 'rare' for some series might mean there are only as many of that one minor variety as there are total coins of another series. The one that I see most often is the denarii of Pescennius Niger which exist in many variations represented by only one coin in the usual literature. More, it is unusual to find die duplicates of Athenian tetradrachms of the common varieties simply because they used so many dies to make the things. The question here can not be answered without really long footnotes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3524055, member: 19463"]Thanks to Sulla80 for this link. All interested should read it. The concept can only be applied to all coins if you consider the factors spelled out in this well thought out piece. I particularly like the idea that 'rare' for some series might mean there are only as many of that one minor variety as there are total coins of another series. The one that I see most often is the denarii of Pescennius Niger which exist in many variations represented by only one coin in the usual literature. More, it is unusual to find die duplicates of Athenian tetradrachms of the common varieties simply because they used so many dies to make the things. The question here can not be answered without really long footnotes.[/QUOTE]
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