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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1764771, member: 19463&quot;]12 Caesars collectors suffer from the fact that there is no good bronze coin of Otho.&nbsp; He made no Roman bronzes and the few provincials tend to have portraits that are a bit generic rather than looking anything like the Otho we know from denarii.&nbsp; Augustus portrait bronzes are less common than silver and most of the best looking ones are posthumous.&nbsp; There are Julius Caesar bronzes but they are generally not much to look at in terms of style either.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For the record, I have absolutely no desire to gather a set of coins called 12 Caesars and find repulsive the attitude that those 12 are somehow more noble to collect than the other emperors.&nbsp; If I were wanting a set of 12 emperors I would prefer to select 12 rulers that I considered significant not 12 that were the subject of a book that happened to survive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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