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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2977918, member: 57495&quot;]Nice find!&nbsp; It wouldn&#039;t be the first time a coin has a rating of common in RIC and one would be hard-pressed finding examples online.&nbsp; I understand that most volumes of RIC surveyed mainly public collections to come up with their rarity ratings, so certain coins would be unavailable in the market even if they are common in museum collections, but I suspect sometimes a rarity of common is just erroneous.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I showed this coin of Valerian a few days ago, but here it is again.&nbsp; Also rated common in RIC, but zero examples to be found on Wildwinds, Coinproject, acsearch, CNG, vcoins, ma-shops, gallienus.net, coryssa.org, OCRE, or the British Museum Collection&#039;s online database.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have access to Coin Archive&#039;s database, but if they have one there I&#039;d love to see it. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]732097[/ATTACH] <b>VALERIAN</b></p><p>Billon Antoninianus. 2.82g, 20.5mm. Rome mint, AD 256-257. RIC 76; Cohen 28. O: IMP CP LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: APOLL SALVTARI, Apollo standing left holding laurel branch in right hand and lyre resting on rock in left.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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