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Message:: [QUOTE="Troodon, post: 25534363, member: 4626"]Well that's the difference between rarity and scarcity; scarcity takes demand into account.  I have coins rarer than a 1909-S VDB Lincoln cent, but aren't nearly as valuable... because the demand for them isn't anywhere near as high.  Or as one person on this site once said: "A mintage of two is still too high (to make it significantly valuable), if only one person in the world wants one." I admit maybe I'm a bit pedantic when it comes to the definition of "unique" but it's a pet peeve of mine when it's used to mean "unusual" or "special."  Semantics aside, I'm certainly not against highlighting interesting designs; it's just that calling everything special is essentially the same as saying nothing is.  I just don't like the term being overused. I certainly don't have anything against this particular coin (other than it tends to be a bit overpriced IMO, but products of most modern mints these days are, so this isn't much worse than many others).  It is a nice design. P.S. Correction on my part, I think the SBA dollar might not have a total mintage of over a billion, but it's close (1979 alone they minted about 3/4 of a billion but there was a huge drop-off after that due to lack of demand for it).  Point is it's certainly not particularly rare though.[/QUOTE]