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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4960410, member: 105098"]The rarity index is based off of how many members to a site have it,  like any token starts at 100 and stays there if it hasn't been reported by a member before, it doesn't mean it's rare out there, it just means they've only seen the one so far, or two or 5. But it may be very common in Japan in around the arcade for instance. if your rarity index number of 95 for instance came from Numista, if it's unknown it starts at 100, and if just a couple members have it it's 90-95. A token issue with less than 1000 examples known in existence and well cataloged can still score a 50 or lower when a bunch of numista members report having it in their collection. for instance I have Grand Prix race-o-rama tokens, both in brass and copper/nickel from that place in Ft. Lauderdale before it sold to Boomers!.However the Copper/nickel version is a rarity index of 93, and the Brass one is a rarity index of 80 on Numista. it's by no means "rare". Grand Prix race-o-rama was started in 1972, sold to boomers in 1998, then it closed down for good. I think Boomers closed it in 2015 when the wooden roller coaster hit it's lifetime limit, but 26 years of the same brass token and the last few years of a copper/nickel version. They made literally a minimum of hundreds of thousands of them in either composition. Just saying, it might be rare to them, it might not be actually rare at all.[/QUOTE]