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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26758358, member: 10461&quot;]Today is that fateful day upon which Julius Caesar was assassinated, 2,069 years ago in 44 BC.&nbsp; Post your JC coins, if you have them!</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted mine to be an example struck in Caesar’s lifetime, not a posthumous issue.&nbsp; I also wanted it to be Fine or better, with reasonable eye appeal, a decent portrait, and most or all of Caesar’s name legible on the flan.</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, I wanted a “happy medium” coin that was nice enough to meet the criteria above, but not TOO nice and therefore unaffordable to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a while I had trouble striking the right balance and came up as the underbidder in several auctions, but finally won this one in a European auction (thankfully before all that tariff stuff started).</p><p><br /></p><p>It has a slightly ragged flan and a banker’s mark, but I was ready to accept those and chalk them up as “character”.&nbsp; I was satisfied with the outcome when I submitted it to NGC.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin has not only Caesar’s name visible but also his DICT PERPETVO (“Perpetual Dictator”) title.&nbsp; Furthermore, it was struck in February to March of 44 BC, within just a few weeks of the assassination.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1708660[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1708661[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1708662[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1708663[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1708664[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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