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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2490216, member: 19463&quot;]The RIC system would work equally poorly in the other direction.&nbsp; There are ancient coins known as a result of a single find.&nbsp; Lets say a pot of 50 freshly struck coins were found and obtained by a museum in the UK which traded their 49 duplicates with other local and national museums around the world.&nbsp; When RIC surveyed their list, that one pot would suggest &#039;everyone has one&#039; level of common even though there might not be a single specimen ever found elsewhere.&nbsp; That would make a C common coin that would be unobtainable in the commercial market. I have a couple Septimius denarii that are listed in the literature but that you never see for sale.&nbsp; It makes a big difference whether a coin was known 200 years ago and has been listed in every catalog or if it was first discovered in 2000 after the last book was published.&nbsp; It is rather like when the US&nbsp; released a number of bags of silver dollars that had been on the bottom of a pile in a vault and turned out to be 1904O that were previously rare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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