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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4669007, member: 84744"]I tried to use [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER]'s strategy on acsearch, but ran into some language trouble.  Does CoinArchives automatically translate rarity terminology?  Acsearch doesn't, although it does automatically translate some other terms for search purposes.  This may be because there are problems with translating! Example issues: there doesn't seem to be an equivalent of "extremely rare" in German, they use "sehr selten" for both "very rare" and "extremely rare."  At the other end, the French seem to use "rare" where in English we might use either "rare" or "scarce."  (Note that while my French is OK, my German is nonexistent, so I'm begging for corrections here...) Anyway, this is what I came up with.  (Note: I excluded cgb.fr from the results due to their extensive commentary which tends to create a lot of false positives.  You can do this by subtracting the term "commentaires" thus: -commentaires.  That almost exclusively removes cgb results.) Parentheses separate the included terms with OR, a "-" excludes a term.  Quotes search for an exact string.  The total number of records is 7,079,256.  (The database includes moderns too, though it's dominated by ancients.) 6.38% 451'535 for (selten rare scarce knapp) -("sehr selten" "very rare" "extremely rare" "très rare" "extrêmement rare")(i.e. including both rare and scarce but excluding very rare, extremely rare, and the like in French and German) 4.99% 353'125 for (selten rare) -("sehr selten" "very rare" "extremely rare" "très rare" "extrêmement rare")(as above but not including scarce) 2.75% 194'476 for ("sehr selten" "very rare" "extremely rare" "très rare" "extrêmement rare")(both very rare and extremely rare, plus their French & German translations) 0.39% 27'755 for (unpublished inédit unique einzig)[/QUOTE]

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