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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2955983, member: 15929&quot;]And this is where &#039;coins&#039; and &#039;art&#039; part ways since the last time I checked, there was only 1 example of the Mona Lisa and Starry Night.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, I&#039;ve wandered way off the reservation since Doug&#039;s assessment is spot on.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;RARE&quot; is a variable word which can mean &quot;Hard to find&quot; or &quot;Only a few known examples&quot; or at the upper end &quot;Extremely Expensive&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>When you get into the &quot;Extremely Expensive&quot; arena, &quot;Hard to Find&quot; and &quot;Only a few known examples&quot; gets tossed out the window since the 1909-SVDB has over 400,000 examples but it&#039;s very expensive regardless of grade. The same if true with the 1955/55.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rare does NOT always equal &#039;Rare&#039; in the common understanding of what rare actually might be but is always used to indicate value to the &#039;non-numismatist&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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