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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4577276, member: 57495"]I wonder if a "type" count is the best measure of how difficult the coins are to acquire. You could have animals that show up on only a handful of types, but if the issues were large, they would still be relatively easy to acquire. For example, right now I see 15 coins with rhinos listed on Vcoins. On the other hand, only 3 ostriches, and 0 foxes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another I'd consider for the very rare category would be rays, as far as I know, only on two types (each representing a distinct species I think). Both hardly ever come up for sale. <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=351245" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=351245" rel="nofollow">Not my coin</a>, sadly:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/559/351245.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>This one is usually called a skate fish, the example below, unfortunately, also <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=472915" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=472915" rel="nofollow">not my coin</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/718/472915.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4577276, member: 57495"]I wonder if a "type" count is the best measure of how difficult the coins are to acquire. You could have animals that show up on only a handful of types, but if the issues were large, they would still be relatively easy to acquire. For example, right now I see 15 coins with rhinos listed on Vcoins. On the other hand, only 3 ostriches, and 0 foxes. Another I'd consider for the very rare category would be rays, as far as I know, only on two types (each representing a distinct species I think). Both hardly ever come up for sale. [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=351245']Not my coin[/URL], sadly: [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/559/351245.m.jpg[/IMG] This one is usually called a skate fish, the example below, unfortunately, also [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=472915']not my coin[/URL]: [IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/718/472915.m.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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