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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 7883313, member: 26302&quot;]Problem with site finds is you do not know distribution of coins to that city, economic ups and downs, etc. I very much disagree with relative rarities presented there. To me, in more than a decade collecting them and reading all pertinent references, I would state the rarest are Class H and J. After those, Class E and F. Your site find shows the Class D and G much rarer than all of these. That simply is not true. Class D is by far the commonest of the &quot;three line reverses&quot;, (a group with three lines on the reverse, as opposed to 4 lines of earlier issues), of D, E, and F. Class G is demonstrably much more common than the H and J, in fact only the I is more common than the G for late issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry, in the middle of updating my paper on these for the Twin Cities Ancient Coin Club. I did a paper maybe 7 years ago about them, but wanted to add new information. Therefore, I am pretty knee deep in this subject right now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone can feel free to disagree, but most auctions I look over listings of these. I buy about any E, F, H, and J I find, since those are the ones I almost never find. All others are easier to find. Even concentrating on those 4 issues, I only own 5 Es, 4 Fs, 2 Hs, and 2 Js. I have many more of the other issues, even with not intentionally chasing them, like maybe 2 dozen or more Class Is and maybe 18 Class Gs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Class I is actually an interesting issue. It was struck in SUCH quantity that there are huge varieties in the issue. A collector could form a fantastic collection just of Class I varieties and have very little competition doing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Class A1 I have to admit I have not ever really spent much time considering. I own a few, never intentionally chasing them. They could be a tad more scarce than I have considered. Given the population and popularity of A2, I guess I kind of overlooked it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, that is actually an above average Class F. They come bad usually, overstruck, corroded, or both. I lucked into a group lot, (someone else saw it though so I had to pay up), this summer from Germany with a VF full face Class F. No references ever show one that nice of a grade. Pure luck, (and diligently looking).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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