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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 2973573, member: 14873&quot;]The coin rarity assessments listed in RIC are mostly based on reported occurrences in public and private collections over an unknown period of time and do not appear to be held in very high esteem by most present day ancient coin dealers or collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cloke &amp; Toone base their rarity assessments on the number of surviving examples found in well documented hoard discoveries. The four hoards surveyed for this section of their book were:</p><p><br /></p><p>Domqueur&nbsp; - Bastien &amp; Vasselle, 1965</p><p>Bridgend - Besly, 2002</p><p>Sully IIA -&nbsp; Besly, 2011</p><p>Sully IIB - Besly, 2011 (and forthcoming)</p><p><br /></p><p>Over 3600 London Mint Tetrarchic coins from this time period were found and examined.</p><p><br /></p><p>It remains to be seen how much credence will be accorded the C&amp;T rarity assessments.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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