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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 2641799, member: 31286&quot;]Interesting point and I&#039;m sure that the majority haven&#039;t been slabbed - however, would you deny that certification percentages aren&#039;t at a least a random sample of existence or availability?&nbsp; Or do you thing someone who is thinking about certification says, yeah, this is large date, I&#039;ll try to certify it, but this one is a small date so I won&#039;t bother?&nbsp;&nbsp; What else do we have to go by in terms of existence or rarity?&nbsp; Empirical evidence?&nbsp; Ok, there are about three times as many large date 1820 cents available on Ebay right now as small date - certified, not certified, ungradible or whatever.&nbsp; Think it&#039;s an aberration?&nbsp; Try completed listings. - or - on Collectors Corner right now, there are probably 10, maybe 15 large date 1820&#039;s listed.&nbsp; How many small dates?&nbsp; Zero!</p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW it seems really odd to me that people cling to something that is not backed statistically in any way&nbsp; - at least not so far - for whatever reason. I don&#039;t really care all that much, I may not even keep this coin and the rarity is irrelevant to why I like it - if I like it - but the issue of how people believe in rarity or not is really baffling!&nbsp; Somewhere, someone said this type of coin is an R-2 - the statistics I find don&#039;t back that up.&nbsp; It&#039;s just a fact so far - please - give me actual information that defends an 1820 N-7 small date is an R-2?&nbsp; Which according PCGS R ratings would mean there are many thousands of them in existence - or perhaps there is a special R rating system for old copper?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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