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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2414371, member: 19463&quot;]Once a coin is an R4 it is always an R4.&nbsp; The problem is that these numbers were never intended to be a count of all coins in existence.&nbsp; They were just a record of coins seen by the authors is a specific list of mostly public collections.&nbsp; The authors could not have foreseen the&nbsp; way the coin collector market would abuse their guide.&nbsp; There has not been a really thorough survey of every collection in the world (impossible!) so the best we have may be the six shown here:</p><p><a href="http://www.nummus-bible-database.com/rechercher-une-monnaie.htm?page=1&amp;personnages=16&amp;ateliers=7&amp;collections=&amp;vendeurs=&amp;motscles=&amp;numric=164&amp;numnbd=&amp;legendes=&amp;nombreResultats=10&amp;btRechercher=Search" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nummus-bible-database.com/rechercher-une-monnaie.htm?page=1&amp;personnages=16&amp;ateliers=7&amp;collections=&amp;vendeurs=&amp;motscles=&amp;numric=164&amp;numnbd=&amp;legendes=&amp;nombreResultats=10&amp;btRechercher=Search" rel="nofollow">http://www.nummus-bible-database.com/rechercher-une-monnaie.htm?page=1&amp;personnages=16&amp;ateliers=7&amp;collections=&amp;vendeurs=&amp;motscles=&amp;numric=164&amp;numnbd=&amp;legendes=&amp;nombreResultats=10&amp;btRechercher=Search</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course they don&#039;t and can&#039;t be expected to have them all.&nbsp; Mine was $12 in 1997.&nbsp; There seems to be enough to cover the demand for them.&nbsp; The reverse type is a bit more in demand than the really common ones but that has little to do with a count of coins and more with the young prince Crispus having a coin that reads &#039;young prince&#039; in my opinion.&nbsp; Note that all six of the ones in the link are reasonably nice coins while mine has a flat strike making the reverse less detailed and explaining the price I paid.&nbsp; Rarity has a lot less to do with coin prices than does condition. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]499393[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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