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Here's a podcast about how Luciteria started and the business of selling elements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3YMSldKCxg

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I wanted to share my updated list of Roman emperors ranked by their coin rarity. I started doing this over 20 years ago and have been honing the data ever since.

Aim: an accurate ranking based on broad market data
The source: auction sales from 1880-2020; over 1.2 million lots
What's in: all Roman emperors from Augustus-Romulus Augustus along with wives, caesars and any other portrait-issuing authority for this period
What's out: private sales, group lots, low-value lots, provincial, anonymous & barbarous coinage, and Byzantines (listed separately)

This is an update from the 2024 list (still available for comparison) with an additional ~13k lots and many corrections. Despite this, the list is never 100% correct as with a database this large there are always miscategorized coins, fakes that need to be culled and other errors which can skew the results but using statistical modeling the sampling error is estimated to be less than 0.04%. It is also important to note that if/when large hoards are released to market the rankings can change. Theoretically, the opposite can also happen with changing demographics and interest; ie., biblical collectors could buy large numbers of constantinian coinage, or investors/wealthy targeting rare rulers, affecting their availability.

Although it's a simple summary in spreadsheet form, this is the result of hundreds, or likely thousands, of hours of work. Hope you enjoy and find it useful!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KDe2ytp_s-B2MvgvAkP-mJrWXB8CeT7LCABhhMMvroQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Yes, it's every bit as good as it looks. Just ate a goddamn half a wheel by myself for dinner, got sick and regardless still yearning for more.