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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 25376724, member: 1765&quot;]Exactly why the URS scale is useless.&nbsp; It tells you nothing about the context of the rarity number.&nbsp; Although didn&#039;t CWT collectors corrupt the scale with R-9?</p><p><br /></p><p>By date and mint, no Morgan or Peace dollars are rare.&nbsp; As a percentage of the entire mintage of the series, the 93-S is somewhat a needle-in-the-haystack coin, but the marketplace has fairly efficiently separated the needles from the haystacks.&nbsp; The rarity scale was used for varieties, but the numbers were always estimates at the time of cataloging, and you can&#039;t unprint a book.&nbsp; Combine that with the fact that the adaptation of the scale wasn&#039;t particularly good and you have R-5 on that scale being the baseline for the average variety.&nbsp; There are some varieties known today to be legitimate R-7 and R-8 coins on a scale that makes sense, where R-1 is the number made by the typical die pair with the populations decaying exponentially down to R-8 being unique or nearly so.&nbsp; The text descriptions of what the R numbers mean provides the context that gives meaning to the numbers.&nbsp; That meaning is gone from the URS scale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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