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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 7012906, member: 112&quot;]No rarity scale represents absolute hard numbers as such a thing would be impossible. But all rarity scales are based on years of research and gathering data from auction sales, private sales, known collections, museum holdings, etc often going back and covering a hundred to two hundred years. In the book I helped write on Netherlands gold ducats the rarity scale we used covers data back to the early 1800s.</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words rarity scales are based on the most complete and documented information that can be gathered. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These are some examples of other common and well known rarity scales. And there are a great many more rarity scales with many of them if not most of them being specific only to specific coins, with others being universal and applying to any and all coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hard Times tokens rarity scale </p><p><br /></p><p>R1 - common</p><p>R2 - less common</p><p>R3 - Scarce</p><p>R4 - estimated 76-200 specimens survive</p><p>R5 - estimated 31-75 specimens survive</p><p>R6 - estimated 13-30 specimens survive</p><p>R7 - estimated 4-12 specimens survive</p><p>R8 - estimated 2 or 3 specimens survive</p><p>R9 - Unique (only one known)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>Fuld rarity scale for token coins: </b></font></p><p><b>GEORGE FULD RARITY SCALE FOR TOKEN COINS</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>RARITY</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>ESTIMATED NUMBER IN EXISTENCE</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>R - 1&nbsp; Greater than 5000 (Relatively Common)</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>R - 2&nbsp; 2001 to 5000</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>R - 3&nbsp; 501 to 2000</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>R - 4&nbsp; 201 to 500</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>R - 5&nbsp; 76 to 200</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>R - 6&nbsp; 21 to 75</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>R - 7&nbsp; 11 to 20</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>R - 8&nbsp; 5 to 10</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>R - 9&nbsp; 2 to 4</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>R - 10&nbsp; 1 Only</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Sheldon Scale</p><p><br /></p><p>R-1 Common</p><p>R-2 Not So Common</p><p>R-3 Scarce</p><p>R-4 Very Scarce (population est at 76-200)</p><p>R-5 Rare (31-75)</p><p>R-6 Very Rare (13-30)</p><p>R-7 Extremely rare (4-12)</p><p>R-8 Unique or Nearly So (1,2 or 3)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>With each one of those rarity scales it&#039;s self explanatory as to what each R number means - how many coins the R number represents in other words. The Akers rarity scale is no different.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, sure it can change, there are exceptions to just about everything. And it has in fact happened. But at the same time you must also understand and realize that those changes are very, very few and far between in the number of times it has happened. And even when it does happen, it typically only involves a single specific date mint combination, not all the coins of the given type. This is why the vast majority of rarity scales are still accurate today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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