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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2511001, member: 19463&quot;]Maybe less common but also maybe just higher in demand.&nbsp; More people can name Caligula as a bad guy emperor and want a coin of his so prices will be higher than they would be were he not a bit infamous.&nbsp; Claudius is probably about as scarce but gets demand from people who remember the TV show I, Claudius.&nbsp; Rarity makes little difference compared to demand and Caligula is a high demand name compared to his relatively few coins for sale.&nbsp; There is another little factor that might play into the matter.&nbsp; Nero debased the silver coinage after a short while in power.&nbsp; This made earlier coins more likely to be melted down.&nbsp; The extremely common coins of Tiberius could afford to lose a few hundred thousand to the crucible and still be common but I suspect more Caligula, Claudius and early period Nero denarii were lost this way since they were more recently in circulation and not as common to start with.&nbsp; I have no particular interest in having a set of 12 Caesar denarii but I would like to have about half a dozen Caligula denarii which I consider more interesting than some others Demand from people like me as well as people who want any of the 12 will add up to making the coin less likely to go cheap.</p><p><br /></p><p>A point: If I wanted to sell a genuine Caligula denarius, I would not sell it at a flea market or on eBay but would consign it to a big sale where people with money shop.&nbsp; To do otherwise might be foolish.&nbsp; If you want to buy a genuine Caligula denarius, I suggest you shop where people who own them are likely to sell them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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