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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 8464416, member: 10461&quot;]As [USER=86498]@Terence Cheesman[/USER] mentioned, if you want an &quot;affordable&quot; aureus in better grade (say VF and up), I think Antoninus Pius is your guy.</p><p><br /></p><p>As also mentioned by [USER=101013]@Limes[/USER], Nero offers &quot;affordable&quot; aurei as well, if you&#039;re focusing on the Twelve Caesars.&nbsp; I wanted my (first, one-and-only) aureus to be from one of the twelve.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I went with the Nero below, which is not especially high grade but which met my minimum grade of Fine, and had good strike and surface ratings from NGC.&nbsp; I also bought a slab because the rest of my collection happens to be slabbed.&nbsp; Obviously you don&#039;t have to do that, and most ancients collectors would crack a slab anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>At $3,250 it was towards the lower end of the price range of coins I considered acceptable.&nbsp; Maybe (probably?) I could have gotten one for less at auction, but I went with this one at fixed price for several reasons of my own.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/4dc0dfaf83dc4233bde9566e4c07d600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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