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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2489962, member: 19463&quot;]We go through this every time it comes up but we always have people who missed the last time.&nbsp; RIC ratings do not attempt to count the number of a coin that exist.&nbsp; They surveyed a specific and very limited list of collections, mostly museums, and report how many of a coin were found in those places.&nbsp; &#039;Unique&#039; means they found one in their list of places not that one exists.&nbsp; They did not consider the fact that thousands of other collections exist and may have the coin or that one of those collections might have a thousand examples.&nbsp; I have seen five examples of an R5 held in the same hand buy a specialist demonstrating that point.&nbsp; Many of us that specialize in something enjoy owning a coin (or a hundred coins) &#039;not in RIC&#039; or otherwise unknown but we really do not know what is held by those thousands of hidden collections either.&nbsp; Don&#039;t get too interested in &#039;rarity&#039;.&nbsp; What makes a difference is the ratio between the number that exist and the number of people who want one.&nbsp; The old joke tells of a sale where a &#039;three known&#039; failed to draw a bid.&nbsp; It seems that only two people cared and they owned the other two.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are a hundred or so EID MAR denarii and a few thousand people who want one.&nbsp;&nbsp; A few of us have coins not otherwise seen in the market in the last 50 years.&nbsp; No one cares about them. Which is &#039;rare&#039;?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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