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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 7475696, member: 98035&quot;]I remember flipping my lid the first time I found an LRB that was listed as a &quot;R5&quot; mint/field mark combo of a common type. Now I feel completely jaded to the concept of rarity.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years ago I was able to pick up a whole bunch of lots of Greek silver fractions. Ended up with a bunch that were unique, and plenty more that were &quot;handful known&quot; rare. Sometimes I wonder if selling the ones I did was the right choice... in some instances I know it wasn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite from a Leu lot...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1293906[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The type is common from Kyme, but as a hemiobol, whereas this one is either a trihemiobol or diobol, and was unique when I discovered it. I think perhaps one other has surfaced since, but mine is by far the better. My example was actually sold by Roma (for $300ish + BP) 6 months before it turned up in a Leu lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Indo Sassanian is an exercise in the mantra of &quot;rarity is common&quot; as most types are &quot;rare&quot; to some extent or another. My most significant accomplishment however...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294173[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This type is the predecessor of the Malwa types, being the only one with the sankh shape in front of the head that still preserves the Gadhaiya face. Maybe someone has a hundred of these, and they were clearly made with different dies, so maybe there are 10,000 in some hoard waiting to be found, but for now, I own all 5 known examples of the type. Two of them I bought after they had been on ebay for at least 3-4 years; two came from another seller about 3 years ago (one of which [USER=90248]@Spaniard[/USER] outbid me on, and I had to trade him for it later!) And the last I bought recently from Pars coins on VAuctions. The type is unknown to Maheshwari, Deyell, and Mitchiner, and I have been unable to find record of any more that aren&#039;t one of these 5. I&#039;m fairly certain all 5 came from the same hoard that included mostly faceless types and was sold sometime around 2013.</p><p><br /></p><p>For my Roman coins I don&#039;t pay much attention to varieties any longer, although rare individuals are a different story.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lucius Caesar AE from Antioch on the Meander - </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294176[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>His portrait is common with big bro Gaius or grandpa Augustus, but coins in his name alone are extremely tough to grab. This further is one of only two published examples, although I purchased a third from Zeus late last year, it never arrived and I&#039;m afraid I might have to get my money back and write it off as a loss <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Then there&#039;s some truly odd ones</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294181[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I see a helmeted bust on the obverse and a vaguely Kushan figure holding maybe a thunderbolt and a purse or modius on the reverse? It came in a lot of junk on ebay back in 2015, and I have never seen anything even remotely like it since.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was another ebay find - seller sold a handful around late 2016, and I&#039;ve never seen them again. Hemiobol sized, turreted male bust left / three line legend like AHV / MV / DV[ATTACH=full]1294184[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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