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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;randygeki, post: 1257864, member: 13719&quot;]Yeah, its the rating from Roman Imperial Coins&nbsp; VII</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=ric%20rarity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=ric%20rarity" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=ric rarity</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>edit: <i></i></p><p><i>Notes:</i></p><p><i>- Although RIC rarity is often criticized, better ratings are not available elsewhere.&nbsp; </i></p><p><i>- RIC rarity is wrong for many individual coin types but overall they are fairly accurate.&nbsp; </i></p><p><i>- Some of the RIC volumes are quite old and the ratings are dated.&nbsp; These volumes have many types listed as rare that are scarce at best, yet overall they are still fairly accurate.&nbsp; Most R5 coins are not unique but are very rare.&nbsp; Most R4 coins are also quite rare.&nbsp;&nbsp; </i></p><p><i>- Older volumes were based on older collections that tended to have more Western mint coins and fewer Eastern mint coins.&nbsp; Since many coins are now found with metal detectors in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the rarity of Eastern mint coins is more likely to be overstated.&nbsp; </i></p><p><i>- Rarity of very interesting types and coins of very rare emperors are probably understated because extra effort was likely expended to acquire those types for the collections examined.&nbsp; </i></p><p><i>- For RIC volumes that list the rarity of types by each officina the accuracy of rarity for the whole type is usually more significant and the least rare officina considered.&nbsp; Specialty collectors may, however, disagree and an R5 coin for a particular officina is probably very rare even if the type is not. </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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