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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3978841, member: 19463&quot;]When it comes to rating rarity of denarii, many of us value the count of examples reported in Mouchmov&#039;s report on the massive Reka Devnia hoard published in 1934.&nbsp; 81044 coins identified by Cohen numbers were listed.&nbsp; Coins with zero examples are generally very rare while those with under ten might be called scarce if from the second or third centuries AD when the hoard is most accurate.&nbsp; Most common of Septimius Severus with 244 examples in the hoard shows the emperor standing with RESTITVTOR VRBIS (Cohen 599). The hoard was weak in the early years so the numbers are less meaningful&nbsp; in the first century so we can not compare, for example, Septimius to Nero.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1047276[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Trivia:&nbsp; I have never seen the question discussed but it seems obvious to ask what is the most common type of denarius in the Reka Devnia hoard.&nbsp; I scanned it quickly and may have missed some but was surprised to find the most common and the runner up were both coins of women.&nbsp; With a count of 547 coins, we have Julia Maesa / Pudicitia:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1047282[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is deceptive since most women had fewer different types than the men so the total number was divided by fewer types.&nbsp; Maesa only had 1141 coins in the hoard compared to 7000+ for a few of the men but hers were only of a few types.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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