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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1766695, member: 19463&quot;]Valentinian&#039;s gamma example might be the rarest of the four by one tidbit of information.&nbsp; RIC lists where they found examples of the coins they quote.&nbsp; Major musuems like the British Museum provided the vast majority of the specimens but a few, including this, are quoted from private collections.&nbsp; I take that to mean that the British, French, Austrian and other huge national collections lacked the gamma coin.&nbsp; That suggests it might be less common but it does not make me want to pay extra to have one.&nbsp; A specialist in the UR coins might want one just to fill out the set or to prove that such a coin really does exist.&nbsp; We each must decide what drives us to collect a certain coin and whether we pay extra for one coin compared to another.&nbsp; Most collectors discriminate based on condition; a few based on style;&nbsp; fewer yet based on other minutia.&nbsp; If I happened across a gamma coin of this type at the same price as an alpha (the common one), I&#039;d buy it but I&#039;d much rather have a &#039;rare&#039; coin made rare by the type (hopefully an interesting type) than by a letter in the mintmark.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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