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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3704863, member: 75937&quot;]There are certain issues of coins you should stay away from until you&#039;ve researched them thoroughly. The coins of Didius Julianus and his family are one of them. By researched thoroughly, I don&#039;t mean looking it up in Sear or RIC to assign a catalog number to it, but being able to identify with which particular die pairs it was struck and seeing numerous previous auction sales to get an idea of the provenance of your prospective acquisition and an idea of the coin&#039;s market value. Moreover -- because a die match to a genuine example won&#039;t protect you from a cast fake or strikes from a cast die -- always buy such coins from well-established and trustworthy firms.</p><p><br /></p><p>Accusations of &quot;don&#039;t play on my playground&quot; notwithstanding, unless you can say (about a coin up at auction at Berk, CNG, etc.) &quot;that sestertius was struck with Woodward obverse die 2, reverse die D, and a similar well-centered gF example sold at Naumann in 2017 for a hammer price of 875 Euros, and a VF went for $1200 at CNG in 2018&quot; you shouldn&#039;t be buying sestertii of Didius Julianus.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s just my opinion. You are, of course, welcome to LEARN THE HARD WAY.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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