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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2580508, member: 66"]The rarity scale and the condition census are two totally different things. The rarity scale is based on the number of surviving specimens known or estimated to exist in ANY condition. The Condition Census is a listing of the top ten (or more for some rarer varieties) finest known specimens of each variety. In some cases where there are many MS coins known there is no actual CC because there is no way to rank the many MS coins. In other cases the CC1 or finest known can be very low grade in the case of very rare varieties, or is some case a mid grade coin for a variety that may not be the rare, but which just doesn't come nice. For example the 1803 S-262 which is maybe an R-3+ or 4- coin (around 200 estimated to exist) has the CC1 coin as only a VF-35. (My F-12 is maybe 15 to 18th finest known. You have a 262 better than VG-8 it is something to be proud of. Most 262's are G-5 or less.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2580508, member: 66"]The rarity scale and the condition census are two totally different things. The rarity scale is based on the number of surviving specimens known or estimated to exist in ANY condition. The Condition Census is a listing of the top ten (or more for some rarer varieties) finest known specimens of each variety. In some cases where there are many MS coins known there is no actual CC because there is no way to rank the many MS coins. In other cases the CC1 or finest known can be very low grade in the case of very rare varieties, or is some case a mid grade coin for a variety that may not be the rare, but which just doesn't come nice. For example the 1803 S-262 which is maybe an R-3+ or 4- coin (around 200 estimated to exist) has the CC1 coin as only a VF-35. (My F-12 is maybe 15 to 18th finest known. You have a 262 better than VG-8 it is something to be proud of. Most 262's are G-5 or less.)[/QUOTE]
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