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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BooksB4Coins, post: 2268794, member: 36230&quot;]If I recall correctly, the estimated survival numbers for the 16-D is about 10,000, but it wouldn&#039;t surprise me if the true number was higher. I know the total PCGS pop was well into the thousands, and can only assume NGC has fairly similar numbers.&nbsp; Im not sure about the lesser TPGs, but there are a LOT of genuine examples still out there raw, even if most are either low grade or problems. There is also a lot of coins that haven&#039;t seen the light of day for a very long time that will, over the next 10-20 years, come out of hiding, so who knows what the numbers will look like in the future.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a look on ebay for 16-Ds... today, tomorrow, next week or month, and take note of how many are available, while remembering this certainly does not represent all examples presently for sale. When one can, at any minute of the day throughout the year, year after year, acquire a certain date/mint with zero effort, should they rightfully be labeled rare or scarce? Sure, they may be &quot;rare&quot; or &quot;scarce&quot; when compared to other painfully common dates/mints, but if something like this rightfully deserves either label, what to call the many coins with survival rates that are just a small fraction of your posted numbers? </p><p><br /></p><p>As for your question about who determines what is rare or scarce, I suppose it all must come down to the individual. In my eyes, no coin is &quot;rare&quot; unless it will be difficult to impossible to find over, perhaps, a few years, and isn&#039;t &quot;scarce&quot; unless finding one will take a reasonable amount of work, but your feelings may be different. Unfortunately, both terms have been so misused that they&#039;ve become near meaningless anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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