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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3958722, member: 80804&quot;]Not sure it will help you, but over the years I have found that the working definition of &quot;rare&quot; = &quot;you don&#039;t have one&quot;. The practical definition of &quot;rare&quot; = &quot;you can&#039;t afford one&quot;.</p><p>The fact of the matter is that in almost all cases the field of ancient coins turns these generalized observations on their heads -</p><p>The working definition in the field of ancient coins is: &quot;rare&quot; = &quot;diddly, in 95+% of cases&quot;.</p><p>Compared to popular &quot;rarities&quot; like a 1909-S vdb US cent, which, given a survival rate of only 25%, would still account for 121,000 extant specimens. An example of any but the very most common of ancient coin types eg: soldiers and standard(s), fallen horseman, etc. is most likely far &quot;rarer&quot; in absolute terms of number of surviving specimens.</p><p>In practical terms, when you get to the pricing aspect, &quot;rarity [alone]&quot; = &quot;almost nothing, compared to condition, eye-appeal and public popularity/demand&quot;. eg: The most common Julio-Claudian denarius by a fairly wide margin is the so-called &quot;tribute penny&quot;, Tiberius&#039; nearly exclusively one-and-only denarius type for his entire 23 year reign. But if you want a nice one, you better have a fat budget - they bring more than any but the rarest of 1st century denarii because FAR more people want to own one (for whatever reason) than any other type in the category.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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