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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 3493676, member: 86498"]I think when people think of rarity they use as a basis point modern coins. This is not a good comparison. The U.S. mint produced in 2017 something close to 3 Billion dimes and just over 2 Billion quarters. I do not think that the entire population of Greek and Roman coins of any kind would come close to even one of these numbers. Just a very cursory examination using AC Search produced the following</p><p>2900 Hektes of Phokaia, 5900 Hektes of Mytilene, 4800 Athenian Tetradrachms 454-404 B.C. 1500 Tribute Pennies (denarii) of Tiberius and about 4100 denarii of Nero. Though I must admit that none of these figures are completely accurate. There were some Starr group V listed among the Athenian coins, Republican coins among the denarii of Nero and so on. Like I said cursory. The point I am making is that ancient coins even very common ones tend to have populations much smaller than modern coins. The authors of RIC VI felt that in order for a coin to be deemed rare there had to be less than 50 examples noted. The least common U.S. Morgan Dollar the 1893 San Francisco has a mintage of 100,000. I do not know how many still exist, however AC Search (again) lists 56 such coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 3493676, member: 86498"]I think when people think of rarity they use as a basis point modern coins. This is not a good comparison. The U.S. mint produced in 2017 something close to 3 Billion dimes and just over 2 Billion quarters. I do not think that the entire population of Greek and Roman coins of any kind would come close to even one of these numbers. Just a very cursory examination using AC Search produced the following 2900 Hektes of Phokaia, 5900 Hektes of Mytilene, 4800 Athenian Tetradrachms 454-404 B.C. 1500 Tribute Pennies (denarii) of Tiberius and about 4100 denarii of Nero. Though I must admit that none of these figures are completely accurate. There were some Starr group V listed among the Athenian coins, Republican coins among the denarii of Nero and so on. Like I said cursory. The point I am making is that ancient coins even very common ones tend to have populations much smaller than modern coins. The authors of RIC VI felt that in order for a coin to be deemed rare there had to be less than 50 examples noted. The least common U.S. Morgan Dollar the 1893 San Francisco has a mintage of 100,000. I do not know how many still exist, however AC Search (again) lists 56 such coins.[/QUOTE]
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