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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2445024, member: 76863&quot;]IMO mintage is the least important aspect in trying to determine what is rare.&nbsp; Survival means far more. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rare though can have so many different meanings.&nbsp; Overall rarity, condition rarity, toning rarity, hard to find due to extreme popularity ect. </p><p><br /></p><p>TPG population reports are a pretty decent start for trying to figure out rarity for US coins especially.&nbsp; For World coins depending on the country auctions and sales are probably a better bet overall at this point. </p><p><br /></p><p>If I am trying to figure out how rare something actually is I start with the TPG pop guides.&nbsp; Yes some coins are counted more than once but that gives you a max to work with for what they graded.&nbsp; Then I look for sales appearances/coins for sale.&nbsp; If I can find 300 examples or something at any given time it really isn&#039;t rare IMO.&nbsp; But if I can only find one here or there or sporadic auction appearances I know that if the right one comes along I can probably go ahead and throw the price guides out the window.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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