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Mistake In The Glossary

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The rare and common got switched.
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Nice catch! I've always been a nitpicker myself
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I think they mean a coin in the Lincoln series that is considered rare can be in the thousands known. like the keys for example. While for other series like patterns dozens being known makes it considered "common" within the series.
that's what I read it as at least.
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Correct. The example posted by the OP does not need correcting, it is intended to show the "relativity" of the word "rare". People talk about the 1909-S-VDB Lincoln being "rare" when there are thousands of them out there, yet pretty much every pattern coin, even the "common" ones, has fewer than 100 known.
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Fixed, thank you!
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Wow, I must be having a bad day, you guys talked me right into it.
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