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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 19183, member: 57463&quot;]In Frank Robinson&#039;s book CONFESSIONS OF A NUMISMATIC FANATIC, he makes the point that any collector who makes a special study of some area can acquire rare, perhaps unique, even museum-quality examples.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This came up in his story by way of the Brasher Doubloons.&nbsp; They had just been in a newspaper story when he was a kid and his coin buddies were all drooling over the dream of having one. Frank said that he had several coins rarer than that.&nbsp; He collected Chinese cash at that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Over in the general Coins discussion, there is a thread about the Full Bands designation for Mercury Dimes.&nbsp; The &quot;rarest&quot; Mercury, the 1916-D runs over a quarter million struck.&nbsp; Also, it is very common for people in general to save the first year of issue, even if they are not &quot;collectors.&quot;&nbsp; These coins are not rare.&nbsp; Even more common are the tens of millions and hundreds of millions, totalling billions of Buffalo Nickels, Indianhead Cents, Walking Liberty Halfs, and so on, and on, and on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a little bronze coin from Cyrene (Kyrene, a Greek town in North Africa, near where Bengazi in Libya is today).&nbsp; It shows Ptolemy and Arsinoe.&nbsp; I found coins &quot;like&quot; it in the SNG Copenhagen and other catalogs, but I never found one really close, even at a glance.&nbsp; I sent it to the ANA for authentication and they found it in the SNG Milano.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a stater from the town of Sinope with DIO under the wing of the Eagle.&nbsp; I believe that it was struck by Diogenes the Cynic.&nbsp; Coins with DIO do show up on occasion.&nbsp; I doubt that there are 264,000 of them floating around.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Neither of these coins costs more than a ubiquitous MS 63 Morgan in a top tier slab.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone else?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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