How Does a Coin Become Rare?

A coin becomes rare when very few people have it compared to how many were made.

Imagine you and your friends each get a bag of 100 identical jellybeans, they all look the same, and everyone has the same number. But if one friend somehow ends up with only 1 jellybean from that same bag, while the others still have 100, that one special jellybean becomes rare because it's much harder to find.

Coins work the same way! When a coin is first made, lots of them are created, like when you and your friends get your bags of jellybeans. But over time, some coins might be lost, broken, or kept in special places, while others keep getting used every day, like when you eat jellybeans from your bag.

If only a few people have a certain kind of coin, maybe because it was made a long time ago or not many were created, that coin becomes rare, just like that one special jellybean.