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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3494918, member: 95174&quot;]This has been an excellent thread with many great collectors participating, I have learned a lot from my fellow collectors posts. Thank you for sharing your insights. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am very focused in my collecting, 12th century Byzantine, originally just one denomination. My thoughts have changed on rarity through the years. I no longer rely on Catalogs that attempted to either show rarity by price or just market conditions. ( Sear , CLBC, Sommer) They all become quickly flawed. The market of course seems to change when one coin type comes to market, sets a record price then many others seem to flood in. These days I base rarity on personal insights of the coin and following it in the marketplace and the site finds on archeological finds mostly in Corinth and Athens but that alone&nbsp; is in no means totally accurate. Some of the types&nbsp; coins just did not circulate in those areas. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an example of SBCV-1933 a tetarteron that took me a few years to find ,&nbsp; the coin became readily available for a short time and is now dried up again. I managed to acquire 6 + specimens </p><p><br /></p><p>SEAR, DOC and Sommer all considered it rare, in fact Sommer thought it was a half tetarteron disagreeing with the other Catalogs.&nbsp; DOC lists one example not in their collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my lightest example coming in at 1.3gm, my heaviest example comes in at 5.4gm, so I understand the confusion on attributing the denomination.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Size 21/12mm</p><p><br /></p><p>Weight 1.3gm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]925633[/ATTACH] </p><p>And a heavier example. 4.9gm size 21.40gm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]925634[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I no longer consider it rare even though I can find no examples for sale in the last year. I do believe when one sells again at a eye catching price I am sure more will make it to market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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