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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hamhawk, post: 1365485, member: 31158&quot;]There seems to be two schools of thought about the definition of rarity.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; One is qualitative.&nbsp; By that I mean this coin might be &quot;rare&quot; or harder to find in one part of the world than it is in another.&nbsp; For example living in Canada I don&#039;t exactly stumble across many Sacajawea dollars, so they may seem rare to me, or more difficult to come by.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t just apply to world coins but older coins as well.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; The second is quantitative.&nbsp; By this I mean the coin has a low mintage.&nbsp; As Doug pointed out there are different scales to determine how rare a coin by the number of coins minted.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Personally I think how rare a coin is, should be determined by how many were minted.&nbsp; Clearly eBay can&#039;t change how many coins were minted and has no effect on rarity.&nbsp; But it does open up the whole world to sellers with coins that otherwise would seem rare, making coins easier to come by.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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