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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 7519095, member: 82549&quot;][USER=74955]@paschka[/USER], I&#039;ve noticed that you ask about the rarity of every coin you&#039;ve posted. The answer is always the same: it depends. With ancients, every coin is unique in some way. If, for example, you are collecting emperors, a coin of Septimius Severus with a Victory reverse would be common to you. But a specialist might recognize your coin as having a unique reverse inscription or originating from an obscure eastern mint and consider it a great rarity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keeping that in mind, you can get some idea of how rare a coin is by going to <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/" rel="nofollow">acsearch.info</a> and searching for other examples. If I go there and search &quot;Maximinus II Genio&quot; I get 863 examples. Your coin was minted in Heraclea. If I add that to the search terms, I get only 53. The mint mark on your coin looks like HTB. If I add that to the search, I get 5 examples. Which is correct, 863, 53 or 5? It depends on what you consider important.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can also do the same thing at <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">vcoins.com</a> to get an idea of what others dealers are asking for similar coins, with the caveat that the condition of an ancient coin has a profound impact on it market value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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