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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3063073, member: 88829&quot;]Your comment does not make it clear that you understand: the occasion for the break between RIC VI and VII is the death of Daia in 313. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind that Sutherland (VI) lists rarity for whole issues by mint (noting the officinae) but Bruun lists rarity for each officina.&nbsp; To compare the rarity numbers between the two you have to add the officina rarity numbers in VII together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also important to recall that these two scholars, more assiduously than their predecessors, use the rarity figures to signal the distribution of a data set among the specific source collections they are using for their study.&nbsp; It is NOT a market study, but rather a study of a fixed population.&nbsp; No guarantee of any correlation to the general market, but a well defined control group that can be interpreted reliably by any competent observer.&nbsp; Replicable.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Instead of flan size, compare the design size (measure the surrounding design circles border to border not edge to edge).&nbsp; By linear dimension note that the design of your &quot;smaller&quot; coin goes all the way to the edge, but the &quot;larger&quot; coin has edge beyond border.&nbsp; How do the design sizes compare?&nbsp; That will tell you more about what was intended, as opposed to what &quot;happened.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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