QUOTE(Mark Stilson @ Feb 18 2008, 09:07 PM)

They assign rarity values to them. The higher the better. A standard VAM 1 is a R-2, a VAM 12 is a R-3, VAM 23 is a R-4. So yours is rarer then the garden variety one no matter what.
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