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Message:: [QUOTE="randygeki, post: 2720946, member: 13719"]I don't want to take away from the other post discussing rarities "according to the ERIC II tabel" but thought it would be interesting to see what coins you have that you consider a rarity. Heres a few of mine. I consider my Constantius II  one of my rarest FH[ATTACH=full]616412[/ATTACH] My unlisted Julia Domna eastern denarii [ATTACH=full]616413[/ATTACH] And this this very ugly but very rare Vespasian sestertius[ATTACH=full]616420[/ATTACH] edit: I should add this info provided by Curtis Clay "The obverse die is A23 in Colin Kraay's unpublished Oxford dissertation, the rev. die P75. Kraay didn't know this die combination, but it is recorded by RIC 70 from a single specimen in the Termopolio Hoard from Pompeii, published in 1997. These are rare types: only one other obv. die of the issue shows this combination of aegis and globe for the bust, and this is the only rev. die of the FIDES EXERCITVVM type used in the issue, though a second such die was used later in the year with Vespasian's name abbreviated VESPASIAN (no -VS). To see what your dies looked like before the corrosion, see RIC pl. 18, 117 and pl. 16, 71 for the obv. and rev. respectively! There are the same two dies on well preserved specimens in other die combinations."[/QUOTE]