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Due to various quirks of the drop system where holding the other unique rings made it more likely to get SoJ, it was relatively easy to get, so it was not unusual for people to have several of them.

It was itself a high-end item that was useful to any character and most items could be valued as being worth a single digit number of Stones.

The Stone of Jordan became the default for several reasons

That something needed to be small (so people could carry a number of them), valuable (so you didn't need 50 of them to equal a high-end item), and plentiful (so that you could get enough of them to trade for a high-end item) At times perfect gems were used, but even these were low enough in cost that it was hard to value high-end items. So the economy needed something that was more valuable to serve as a basis of comparison between the value of high-end items. Diablo 2 had a barter economy, but gold itself was not valuable enough to trade for any high-end items (because there was a max amount you could carry).