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Message:: [QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7326158, member: 86498"]In 1991 I bought my first Aureus one of Antoninus Pius. That coin remained my one and only aureus until 2017 when using money that I had acquired by selling off a number of my coins I started to buy some Aureii. Even so I decided to limit myself to only a few of these coins as they are expensive compared to other coins of the same series. I also limited myself to purchasing aureii of emperors that were rather easy to acquire.  However even aureii of emperors like Tiberius, Nero and Trajan can become pricy. The least expensive aureus that I had purchased in the last five years was this one. According to CNG I paid  $3250 U.S. plus fees.Faustina Senior as Divus Av Aureus Rome 141-146 AD. Obv. Bust right draped wearing hair bound with pearls. Rv. Pietas standing left. RIC 394c(a) Beckmann daf7/PA 12 7.24 grms 19 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1280145[/ATTACH]Despite the plan to limit the number of these coins I had always assumed that I would try to purchase one aureus featuring the portrait of an empress and  had concluded for a number of reasons that Faustina would be the one I would acquire. This came true  in May of 2019 when this coin estimated at $5K was dying.  It had one bid and so... I bid on it and won.  I cannot say how many more of  these coins I will try to acquire. At present I would like to get two more perhaps even three.[/QUOTE]