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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 2212442, member: 56653"]No, rarity does not necessarily mean a higher price, what it objectively means is less specs known. While price is subjective, rarity (or at least recorded and published rarity) is objective: we objectively know that at a particular time, in known public and private collections there are X coins of a particular feature of a particular issue. And beyond those known from published sources, there are the ones collectors note from public sales or small private collections that were not recorded by the regular references.</p><p><br /></p><p>That's what I actually mean with understated rarity - the fact that despite it's obvious rarity to a specialist, a coin like the one in OP could easily fly beneath the radar for the equivalent of a Happy Meal <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 2212442, member: 56653"]No, rarity does not necessarily mean a higher price, what it objectively means is less specs known. While price is subjective, rarity (or at least recorded and published rarity) is objective: we objectively know that at a particular time, in known public and private collections there are X coins of a particular feature of a particular issue. And beyond those known from published sources, there are the ones collectors note from public sales or small private collections that were not recorded by the regular references. That's what I actually mean with understated rarity - the fact that despite it's obvious rarity to a specialist, a coin like the one in OP could easily fly beneath the radar for the equivalent of a Happy Meal :)[/QUOTE]
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