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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 7775915, member: 98035&quot;]If you hype up your collection and then eventually consign it all at once, some auction houses may give you a special &quot;Greg H. Collection&quot; category, which from my experience can help boost the final sale price of the more average pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember a while ago Aureo &amp; Calico auctioned someone&#039;s entire collection - mostly gold aureii/solidii. Absolutely jaw-dropping collection. On one hand, I feel like some of the more average denarii (while nice) hammered for about 2-3x what I felt like they should have. On the other, some of the rarities brought a lot less; some of the rare late issues I felt I maybe could have seriously bid for if I had more time to prepare. My guess is that the people with the big bucks all got sidetracked with the major rarities, letting for example a Galla Placidia solidus go for &quot;only&quot; €4,000 or a Basiliscus solidus for €1400.</p><p><br /></p><p>E: auction link; it&#039;s a treat to just browse through it!</p><p><a href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/aureocalico/browse?a=206&amp;c=3312" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/aureocalico/browse?a=206&amp;c=3312" rel="nofollow">https://www.biddr.com/auctions/aureocalico/browse?a=206&amp;c=3312</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I started as a &quot;one each&quot; collector, then &quot;one of each title&quot; and now I&#039;m letting myself branch out on the emperors I find more interesting. It just felt wrong to have 3 coins of Numerian (Caesar, Augustus, Divus) while only one of Trajan. I also started dabbling in non-imperial portraits of provincial governors. I have no idea how close I am to &quot;complete&quot; - I do hope to fill in Gordian I and II, then I have one of every Senate-ratified emperor from Augustus through Arcadius/Honorius. I eventually hope to also fill out the imperatorial era (how do I not have a Brutus?!) and then maybe I&#039;ll make some progress on the terminal empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again, if I&#039;m spending that kind of money, maybe it would be better to branch out and get some Classical Greek tetradrachms...</p><p><br /></p><p>I do gotta know - who do you have in your 150? It&#039;s been a long time since I&#039;ve added up everyone I have but I assume you have the post-Theodosius era covered much more well than I do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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