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Message:: [QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3626537, member: 80804"]"Rarity", per se, is one of the most overused concepts in marketing coins. If you say "Rare!" on every coin you list for sale (as I see way too many sellers using it this way), it becomes just like the sellers who always boost their grading at least a whole level in print, too. The use of a posted grade is virtually meaningless in, say, any ebay listing of an ancient or medieval coin - saying it's "rare" is also right up there in the meaningless stratosphere. People don't buy any but the most important and published coin-types on the basis of rarity. The je ne sais quoi of "eye appeal" is WAY more important in 99+% of sales situations than any empirical combination of technical grade and rarity.If you wish to make rarity a dimension and parameter of your personal collection, that's fine, but "possibly/probably unique" pieces (particularly among Provincial issues) are almost literally more common than "common" Provincials.[/QUOTE]