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Message:: [QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 4602888, member: 14873"][ATTACH=full]1140118[/ATTACH]Lifetime portrait coin of Julius Caesar (March, 44BC) Yes, of course. While I am mostly known on CT for my interest in Romano-British associated coinage, which derives from having been born and growing up in an area steeped in that history, I have also collected a few more modern coins along the way. Because the area of northern Britain I grew up in was also associated with the English Civil Wars, Preston battlefield (the scene of Charles Stuart’s final crushing defeat) was only a few miles from my home as was the great estate of the Royalist Towneley family, I naturally have collected a few coins associated with those wars - example: [ATTACH=full]1140126[/ATTACH] Who can resist a Charles Stuart on horse-back (ala Van Dyke) half-crown? Not a collector coin by any means, but still precious to me. And more modern yet, a well worn, much circulated, British penny of my birth year (1929) and I have several other circulated coins from the 1930s also: [ATTACH=full]1140102[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1140101[/ATTACH] Those coins mean as much to me as my Ancients.For me, it is all about historical association - condition is secondary.[/QUOTE]