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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3739617, member: 56859&quot;]That style of rarity rating is used in Roman Imperial Coinage.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Roman%20Imperial%20Coinage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Roman%20Imperial%20Coinage" rel="nofollow">Some of those volumes date to the 1920s </a>and so are often wildly outdated in terms of rarity ratings.&nbsp; The volumes surveyed major collections and since then vast numbers of coins have been dug up and dispersed.&nbsp; While most of us will note a high rarity rating from RIC, it is understood that the rating may be meaningless today.&nbsp; A better approach would be survey the type in <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/" rel="nofollow">ACsearch</a> (reflects coins sold at auction) or other sales databases (such as <a href="http://www.coryssa.org/index.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coryssa.org/index.php" rel="nofollow">Coryssa</a>) to get a better idea of what is actually in the market.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=RIC%20Rarity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=RIC%20Rarity" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=RIC Rarity</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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