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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 3980633, member: 75525"]My answer is that you get to decide. There is no blue book with holes, mint dates, mint marks & mintages like the one I used for Lincoln Cents 5 decades ago. You can make a 12 Caesar set any way you like. It is more common to make a set with portraits by metal (gold, silver or bronze) and by Roman (words in Latin) or Provential (words in Greek).</p><p>I have several coins that I consider issued under Julius Caesar, but no silver or gold with his portrait. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1047882[/ATTACH] </p><p>bronze, provential & broken</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1047894[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The moneyer M.N.CORDIVS.RVFVS – IIIVIR, 46 BC, issued coins to help pay the awards given to Caesar’s troops during the triumphs after he crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC and fought civil wars for control of Rome for a couple of years. Not many folks here consider these Julius Caesar coins for a 12 Caesar set, but it was the first J Caesar coin I bought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 3980633, member: 75525"]My answer is that you get to decide. There is no blue book with holes, mint dates, mint marks & mintages like the one I used for Lincoln Cents 5 decades ago. You can make a 12 Caesar set any way you like. It is more common to make a set with portraits by metal (gold, silver or bronze) and by Roman (words in Latin) or Provential (words in Greek). I have several coins that I consider issued under Julius Caesar, but no silver or gold with his portrait. [ATTACH=full]1047882[/ATTACH] bronze, provential & broken [ATTACH=full]1047894[/ATTACH] The moneyer M.N.CORDIVS.RVFVS – IIIVIR, 46 BC, issued coins to help pay the awards given to Caesar’s troops during the triumphs after he crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC and fought civil wars for control of Rome for a couple of years. Not many folks here consider these Julius Caesar coins for a 12 Caesar set, but it was the first J Caesar coin I bought.[/QUOTE]
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