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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stlnats, post: 25373696, member: 41066&quot;]During and since covid my interests have wandered a lot.&nbsp; My long-time interest of US national banknotes has ebbed dramatically, and I began to explore other long term but less developed/secondary interests to see how far I could go.&nbsp; One of these was a 12 Caesars&#039; set. I already had nice examples of several of the emperors but did not want to be tied down to denarii but to develop a set of coins each with a story of some type preferably illustrating an event or personality trait, was an &quot;ultimate&quot; title for the emperor and was reasonably affordable.&nbsp; I also really like the big silvers of the east.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to swap out a few of these coins due to condition (the Julius) or with a coin with a stronger story (the Gaius and Otho).&nbsp; I did leave in the Tiberius because how can one have a 12 Caesars&#039; set without a tribute penny? (Just MHO.)&nbsp; For those keeping score the first of the coins in the set was purchased in 1989 (the Nero) and the last was the Galba which replaced an Egyptian tetradrachm with a pedestrian reverse just before making the presentation.&nbsp; I think my total out of pocket was a bit over $5k which is pretty affordable over 30 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, I did a PowerPoint to the St Louis Ancient Coin Study group early last year (2023) and here are images of the 3 summary pages.&nbsp; I cheated and there are 13 pieces in this &quot;set,&quot; including the second emperor with both of his names.&nbsp; Also, the Galba is a fouree; a purposeful addition.&nbsp; I like fourees generally and there is some irony given the reverse inscription. Finally, the Nero As is indeed a mule with 2 obverses and is footnoted in BMC.&nbsp; The coin went from Empire Coins to George Beach to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1624284[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1624285[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1624286[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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