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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2473381, member: 76194&quot;]Rare is a relative term. I&#039;ve seen sellers describing Gordian III silver as &quot;rare&quot;. Is it rare compared to the large surviving populations of US 19th and 20th century coins? Sure... but definitely not rare by ancient coins standards. I wouldn&#039;t call a type of ancient coin rare unless there were less than 100 known examples. Scarce would be suitable for less than 500 known examples. Anything more would be common.</p><p><br /></p><p>But keep in mind that even rare ancient coins may not be worth a lot if there&#039;s not much of a market for them. There are some fairly common ancient coins that come in high prices because the ruler depicted on them is one that is in high demand, while other fairly rare coins don&#039;t comand very high prices because they are from some obscure Empire or ruler that not a lot of people are interested in collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing to consider is that the market for ancient coins it&#039;s much smaller than for modern coins. Just look at how many people at Cointalk collect modern US and world coins compared to ancient coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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