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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1621944, member: 26302"]I agree with both Mat and Doug of course. The Constans as a type is about as common as there is in LRB's. It must be some rare little field mark or something. The problem with RIC is that they based their rarity scale both 80 years ago before Eastern European material started coming on the market strongly, as well as mostly only assessing museum collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>This leads to a tremendous amount of VERY common eastern european mint coins on the market today being listed as "rare" in RIC. Unless a person knows this market WELL, I would never advise them paying over general type value for any LRB. Please, do not ever fall for "RIC rarity 4" or whatever people. MAYBE a coin listed in RIC is rare, maybe its not, and even if it is if only 2 people on the planet care then it can be rare all day long and still only worht common price. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1621944, member: 26302"]I agree with both Mat and Doug of course. The Constans as a type is about as common as there is in LRB's. It must be some rare little field mark or something. The problem with RIC is that they based their rarity scale both 80 years ago before Eastern European material started coming on the market strongly, as well as mostly only assessing museum collections. This leads to a tremendous amount of VERY common eastern european mint coins on the market today being listed as "rare" in RIC. Unless a person knows this market WELL, I would never advise them paying over general type value for any LRB. Please, do not ever fall for "RIC rarity 4" or whatever people. MAYBE a coin listed in RIC is rare, maybe its not, and even if it is if only 2 people on the planet care then it can be rare all day long and still only worht common price. :)[/QUOTE]
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