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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3739660, member: 98035&quot;]While far from all-encompassing, the site at <a href="http://romancoin.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://romancoin.info/" rel="nofollow">http://romancoin.info/</a> has some great .xls sheets for a few specialty areas, and every coin is given a rarity.</p><p><br /></p><p>One caveat to note - the survival rate of ancient coins as a whole is probably pretty low, and there are thousands upon thousands of &quot;one-off&quot; varieties, nearly all of which are &quot;rare&quot; in an absolute sense. For the vast majority of these, rarity doesn&#039;t actually matter to anyone except a specialist. From my experience with Roman coins, rarity matters in roughly this order, from most to least important:</p><p>1. Rare ruler (Regalianus, Laelianus, etc)</p><p>2. Rare denomination (Gallienus sestertius, Trajan Decius denarius)</p><p>3. Rare reverse type (Constantine SPES PVBLIC, Claudius II VICTORIAE GOTHIC)</p><p>4. Rare bust type (LRB bust holding horse, Gallienus as Hercules)</p><p>5. Rare mint</p><p>6. Rare inscription variant</p><p>7. Other minor details</p><p><br /></p><p>As I demonstrated in another thread, once you get down into the nitty gritty of it, it is not at all difficult to assemble a wide variety of &quot;unique&quot; coins, few of which would generate much interest solely by virtue of their utmost rarity. Ancients just don&#039;t work like wheat pennies and mercury dimes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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