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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3154906, member: 19463&quot;]I have stopped caring about rarity unless it keeps me from finding a coin I want so Ireally can not comment of whether the coin in question is rare or not. The reverse type is quite common (common enough for me to have one) for Marcus&#039; co emperor Lucius Verus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]809004[/ATTACH] </p><p>There is the earlier Virtus as mentioned:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]809007[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>That leaves us with the question:</p><p><font size="6"><b>Does it matter?</b></font></p><p><font size="4">It most certainly does to the specialist in coins of Marcus Aurelius.&nbsp; Here on CT we have several specialists.&nbsp; We have Flavian specialists; we have Septimius specialists who don&#039;t even specialize in the same exact sub-specialities; we have Falling Horsemen specialists;&nbsp; we have those who specialize in anything that comes in Mint State.&nbsp; To each of those specialists and the host of general collectors who buy coins they like without overthinking the matter,&nbsp; it matters rather little.&nbsp; There are enough &#039;rare&#039; coins that it is quite possible someone could specialize in &#039;Coins not known to exist in more than x examples&#039;.&nbsp; For radicals x might equal one but x=10 might be possible.&nbsp; It might also be boring but that is quite another matter.&nbsp; The point is that &#039;matter&#039; is another very personal question.&nbsp; Most of us are amazed at the yawns we encounter when we show our finest treasures to non-collectors and those who collect differently than we do. So, to you, does it matter? </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">IF Ken <i>had</i> looked it up, he would not have just gone to Wildwinds or acsearch or any other site but would have had to put on a deeper search if the answer was to mean anything.&nbsp; This is a job for the specialist to whom the question really matters.&nbsp; If you discovered that there really were only three of these known, the question of worth in the market would still be little.&nbsp; Worth requires demand and there is a great deal more market value in a coin with a hundred examples and a thousand fans than one with three examples and no one who cares. </font></p><p><font size="4"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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