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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3019624, member: 10461&quot;]No, they sure aren&#039;t.&nbsp; I had a $500/coin max budget in my old Twelve Caesars collection, and only <i>barely</i> managed to acquire the coin above for less than that price.&nbsp; It was low grade and not the loveliest specimen, but it had a reasonably clear portrait <font size="3">(which someone on Collectors Universe said looked like Bart Simpson- haha)</font> and most of Caesar&#039;s name readable.&nbsp; It did have &quot;character&quot;, and the bankers&#039; marks added to that, I thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted a lifetime issue.&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to beat the historical significance of these.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve heard them referred to as &quot;<a href="http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/numismatics/entry/the_coin_that/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/numismatics/entry/the_coin_that/" rel="nofollow">The Coin that Killed Caesar</a>&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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