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Here's an interesting look at past cataloger's use of these terms.

In Stack's Roper Collection sale (December 1983) seen here:


They give a little blurb in the forward about use of the terms Very Rare and Extremely Rare:


And then, just 2 pages later, they hit us with this:


My conclusion: Clearly Excessively Rare connotes greater rarity than Extremely Rare, but even the catalogers using these terms did not bother to take the time to define all of them.

The End.

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