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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 26614081, member: 104064"]How rare is my collection? I may be the only collector who has all 21 Barber dime hub transition varieties 1899-1905. So who knows, it might be R9. Obviously the individual coins are not "rare", but the collection could be. Same holds true for many registry sets with 100% completion, etc. Does the owner of an 1894-S dime care what the price of silver is? It seems like you're trying to define rarity as a premium over metal price, and redrawing the line between "rare" and "not rare" at certain grades for certain coins for the purpose of profit. I guess that makes sense for people who are in it to make money, and to decide between keeping and melting. Personally I find the concept of melting to cash in rather distasteful, because once it's gone it's never coming back, and these are relics of history. You could make a few bucks on those 60+ year old coins, or they could fill a hole in a kid's collection.[/QUOTE]