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Message:: [QUOTE="seth77, post: 4667378, member: 56653"]There are contexts that make certain issues from certain places of certain rulers rare. For instance Magnus Maximus is by no means a "rare" figure -- he minted enormous amounts of copper maiorinae and some AE4s and rather consistent siliqua issues at his main mints in Trier, Lyon and Arles for around 5 years. What makes OP's siliqua rare (or very rare) is not the fact that it was minted by Maximus, but the fact that it was minted at Aquileia during his short aventurist stint in Italy in 387. At the same time, what makes [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER]'s maiorina extremely rare is the fact that it was minted for an extremely short period by Theodosius around 384 during a short detente between himself and Maximus, in which an unlikely event happened: an usurper by Roman law standards was briefly recognized as legitimate by a legitimate emperor. Try to find another maiorina of the Theodosius type for Maximus and you will probably spend many years with 0 finds. Perhaps you won't find another one period. Try finding another issue of Maximus, including his siliquae, including a siliqua of Aquileia, and you will find them. Most of them being common and affordable enough. I for instance think this is a rare coin: [ATTACH=full]1150874[/ATTACH]a denier parisis of Louis IX of 1245/50 Duplessy 191. It is listed and known about but you don't really find them. Why? That's hard to tell -- while the denier tournois of Louis IX is commonplace, the parisis is mostly non-existent. Might be on the account of the way he organized the costs and finances of his Crusade, which was done in deniers tournois, thus causing a phasing out of the parisis in the 13th century. This is not really explained. Which leads to another point: who cares? For instance not not many care enough to look for these rarities, which is fine by me, as this one was 13EUR shipped.[/QUOTE]

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