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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3737350, member: 57495&quot;]Nope.&nbsp; To begin with, &quot;all these hoards&quot; only represent a fraction of all hoards and single finds ever dug up.&nbsp; Significant reported hoards are likely to be analyzed and published, but not all are. The Cunetio and Normanby hoards are two that are large enough to provide some useful data on the comparative rarity of coins of the period (mid-3rd century AD Roman Imperial and Gallic Empire coins), but comparative rarity is about as good as it gets.&nbsp; If you&#039;re interested, the studies on them were recently republished together in a single volume.&nbsp; We had a thread about the book earlier this year: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cunetio-and-normanby-hoards.331121/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cunetio-and-normanby-hoards.331121/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cunetio-and-normanby-hoards.331121/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>We often see in sale descriptions phrases like &quot;one of three known&quot;, &quot;only one in private hands&quot;, or even &quot;apparently unique&quot;, but those descriptions only apply until another one hundred or one thousand &#039;new&#039; examples come to light.&nbsp; We&#039;ve had quite a bit of talk in the past year or two here on CT about the huge hoard of 10,000 (or was 20,000?) Athenian tetradrachms that have flooded the market.&nbsp; Nothing has been published about that hoard, but it&#039;s probably doubled the known examples extant of a type that is arguably the most popular and well-known ancient coin we have.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m still waiting for a hoard of EID MAR denarii to surface. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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