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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8178728, member: 115909&quot;]Amazing coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah they’re definitely not cheap in most cases. This denarius cost me more than any other denarius of mine but I knew I’d get to a point where things started to cost more as you go further back in time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tiberius is going to cost me quite a bit too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t even know if I’ll ever get a Caligula or a Claudius.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s actually a bit nuts because Augustus was Emperor for quite some time and minted ALOT of coins so you’d expect them to be in plentiful supply.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like Gordian III coins. They’re everywhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine most of them got melted down when things got bad. Heck by the 3rd century there is so little silver in the coins that 1 Augustus denarius had as much silver as 30x 3rd century Antoninianii.</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s one thing I love about the early denarii. They’re nice and big and they are made of very pure silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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