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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8191599, member: 19463&quot;]We differ greatly on the definition of &#039;rarity&#039;.&nbsp; We know from sales records that there are about 100 known examples of the EID MAR.&nbsp; A few of them are plated and the average one is &#039;average&#039; but in high demand from people who would not even think of owning a common coin in that grade. Prices go up when there are 100 coins and 10,000 people who want one.&nbsp; On the other hand, there are quite a number of coins known from a very few surviving specimens.&nbsp; Some are even one of a kind &#039;unique&#039; but many sell for less than a good lunch because the demand for that item is less than the census count.&nbsp; My answer to the question has to depend on the coin.&nbsp; If it is a great rarity that fits my specialty collection, I want it.&nbsp; If it is equally rare but was issued by a ruler that means nothing special to me, I would pay no extra.&nbsp; Maridvnvm and I have posted on Coin Talk I&#039;d suspect 50 coins of Septimius Severus that do not exist in half as many examples as the EID MAR but there are only a handful of people who would take some of them as a gift let alone pay for their rarity. I don&#039;t know the census of each of my coins with any accuracy but I&#039;ll tack on here ten coins I believe exist in fewer than 100 examples total for the group.&nbsp; Besides that, what they have in common is that most of you would not want them even though you would have a lot of trouble finding any one of them any better.&nbsp; Before someone asks:&nbsp; I hope no one was planning on asking me to trade one of these for one of those common EID MAR coins.&nbsp; In a couple of these cases, I&#039;d have trouble making that decision.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To get ten here, I had to cheat and include a couple I know are barbarous and a couple I know exist in at least ten examples.&nbsp; I would be interested in hearing from anyone who can demonstrate I am wrong about there being under 100 total.&nbsp; Would I trade them for a mint state common?&nbsp; Not a chance.[ATTACH=full]1434285[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1434286[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1434291[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1434292[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1434293[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1434298[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1434300[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1434301[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1434302[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1434313[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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