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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2629750, member: 19463&quot;]I could not agree with this more unless we wish to allow for a coin being published AND one of a kind.&nbsp; I do not know how many of the coin below exist but it is the only one I have seen.&nbsp; It is, however, published in the Savio plates of the Dattari collection.&nbsp; I only found out yesterday that this &#039;listed&#039; coin that I bought years ago in a CNG sale was the Dattari specimen.&nbsp; Emmett only says it is a rarity 4 so I assume he has seen others.&nbsp; We have to be careful when counting to distinguish between multiple specimens and multiple sales of the same one.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]578482[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When collections are broken up and sent to market it is quite possible that some coins will disappear for many years before they pop up again.&nbsp; Many collectors who started with me fifty years ago do not share their coins online so we have no idea what they have.&nbsp; If they leave them to grandchildren who also collect (that really is rare) some coins could be off-market for a century.&nbsp; We have catalogs like Reka Devnia but who has seen the coins supposedly in the museums in the last fifty years?</p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone who writes a book will list all the coins from previous generations of catalogers making little effort to confirm, for example, everything in Cohen (1806-1880) survived two World Wars.&nbsp; I have no idea how many others of the Julia Domna above exists now but I now know this one has been in someone&#039;s collection for over a century and sold at least twice.&nbsp; That may make it often sold compared to some of its brethren.&nbsp; Is it &quot;possibly unique and very fully published&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>How many of the coins in our early illustrated listings (Savio is pencil rubbings so I don&#039;t say photographed) no longer exist?&nbsp; Lost, destroyed in war, melted by burglars..... That allows us a possible new category &quot;once rare but now non-existent&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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