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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2988643, member: 76194&quot;]Thank you all for the compliments and for sharing your sweet Vitellius coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those interested in the costs of a set of 12 Caesars, and not sure whether to jump in or not, here is my take. I&#039;ve confined myself to Imperial bronze and silver coins bearing the portrait of the emperor. With those constraints, I&#039;m in $2130 for the set of 9, which considering my superb Julius Caesar lifetime denarius, sweet Augustus silver denarius, and the quality of my Flavian coinage, I&#039;m actually surprised how little I&#039;m in for everything. I rather expected to be near $3,000 already with all the coins I have so far...but some things have helped me along the road.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really lucked out on my Julius Caesar lifetime portrait denarius. I&#039;ll fess up and say my costs were somewhat noticeably below the $1000 mark, which given similar ones selling at auction and vcoins for $1,400 or more, was plain highway robbery. The Otho and Vitellius were also good deals, as I would have paid $100+ more on each on vcoins than what I actually paid for them. Add some lucky breaks with finding some modest but still respectable budget Claudius and Tiberius (paid less than $290 for those two combined), and there goes the $2,130.00.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if I can get a decent Nero bronze for around $250 and a budget but respectable Caligula bronze for around $300, that leaves me $320 for a modest imperial As of Galba (which is doable with some patience), and I can wrap up a respectable 12 Caesars Imperial Portraits $3000 budget set that I can be happy with and live with, without any regrets or needs to upgrade (unless a really good deal on an upgrade ever pops up...you never know).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>For those in a more limited budget</b>, if you go provincial on some of these guys you can probably do a 12 Caesars set for around $2,200. And if you are ok with a Julius Caesar non-portrait budget denarius, you might just be able to bring the costs below $2,000. So it is doable even for those with super tight budgets. Might take you a while, but it is definitely doable if you are willing to make those compromises. I encourage you to try...it is a fun set to hunt for and build.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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