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Message:: [QUOTE="laz, post: 1836, member: 53"]Ah,then it isn't rare,just not circulating yet.There's a big difference.I call a coin RARE if it has an extremely limited mintage.What your saying,I can say about the 2003 Lincoln Cent! it must be RARE,I haven't seen ANY of them in change yet! Ah,but there will probably be a billion minted,so is it truly rare,or just percieved as being rare. I doubt that any regular issue Euros will be considered rare,with the possible exception of the Vatican issues which I understand are limited. My point is the word "rare" is often,as in this case, misused.I specialize in coins that have extremely small mintages.Many of these are considered "common" today because of the small number of serious collector's in this area.Your coin has probably 100 time higher mintage. The fact that you don't see them in change doesn't make them rare.It doesn't make any difference which part of the world you live in,rare coins are just not seen in circulation! You might be interested in joining our EW5 group "World Coin Collecting" it's totally free like everything in Error World.Here's the link...  <a href="http://groups.msn.com/WorldCoinCollecting/_whatsnew.msnw" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://groups.msn.com/WorldCoinCollecting/_whatsnew.msnw" rel="nofollow">http://groups.msn.com/WorldCoinCollecting/_whatsnew.msnw</a> Happy collecting! ~ Jim[/QUOTE]