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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2567923, member: 19463&quot;]It is even worse than Pishpash related.&nbsp; At the time RIC was written, the authors made a very small effort to check a short list of public collections to see which had the coin but that does not mean that a dealer two blocks from them could not have a bag full of them.&nbsp; R5 means &quot;Unique in our test group&quot; but is only a rough guide to the number actually known.&nbsp; Of course the matter is made worse every time a new hoard was found.&nbsp; I once was shown a group of five examples of an R5 coin in the hand of a dealer.&nbsp; Unfortunately, some coins might really have been the only one known and might have been destroyed, stolen or lost after the count was made.&nbsp; That coin is more rare than unique; it once existed but now zero are known.&nbsp; We should not take rarity scales too seriously.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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