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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2941325, member: 82549&quot;]Considering the strike and the condition, I&#039;d say you got a great buy. Really beautiful coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>To add to Doug&#039;s post, terms like scarce, rare, and common were used to describe the number of coins of that particular issue from that particular mint. For example, there are a great number of coins of, say, Maximian from Heraclea with a GENIO POPVLI ROMANI reverse. Some may have something like HB for a mint mark, while others might have HTB, indicating that they were minted later. RIC vol. VI assigns these coins different rarity ratings.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC vol. VII, however, which catalogs your coins, breaks the distinction down even smaller, and assigns rarity values based on the number of coins from each officina, or section, of each mint. So your coin with the Delta in the mint mark is rated scarce, but the exact same coin with an Epsilon would be rated rare. Nowadays, I think most collectors aren&#039;t very concerned with such fine--I might say &quot;pedantic&quot; if I were trying to impress someone--distinctions. (Are you impressed?) In many cases I don&#039;t think it&#039;s clear whether these ratings reflect the number of coins minted or just preservation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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