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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1795286, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with most of this except I can not comment on the part about a $1000 coin since I have never paid that much for one coin.&nbsp; Given $1000 to spend on coins, I am more likely to buy several (2, 4, 8, 16 or 32) lesser coins than one $1000 example.&nbsp; It is a choice we all make in our pursuit of the hobby.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]290441[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t have the galley antoninianus and my big bronze is not nearly as nice as Cucumbor&#039;s,&nbsp; Postumus bronzes are usually pretty awful looking with weak reverses.&nbsp; They are also the last big bronzes in the Roman series until you get to the Byzantine M coins.&nbsp; There are Aurelian bronzes called sestertii in the hobby but they are more the size of an as of the Severan period.&nbsp; I&#039;ll tack on my other two Postumus AE just to make the point that you will have to look harder to find nice ones (and pay a few thousand).</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH]290442[/ATTACH][ATTACH]290443[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are also dupondius size coins of the types which tend to look rather barbarous.&nbsp; I don&#039;t own one and am not willing to pay the same price for them that I might for the full size version.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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