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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 3321156, member: 83956"][ATTACH=full]880354[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s mine, a DICT PERPETVO lifetime portrait denarius, purchased in March of 2018. The fact that I was in a position to get one in my price range was the result of a series of fortuitous circumstances. Some of you may remember that earlier in the year I realized that a Julius Caesar Aeneas denarius I owned was fake. I sent it back to the Spanish seller for a full refund. While I was waiting for the refund to be posted (about $300), this JC coin came on the market in the VCoins store “Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger” for about €500. I’m a guy who rarely spends over $100 on a coin, so $640 or so delivered is a lot of money to me. But as luck would have it, I had a little extra cash on hand and was awaiting that cash return for the forgery. I decided to put it all together for this coin. Honestly, had I not been forced to return that Aeneas forgery, I wouldn’t have been in a position to buy the JC denarius, so it was a classic case of one door closing but another one opening. (I’ll get that Aeneas coin someday too. Maybe this year.) I also looked at previous Cointalk threads and saw a number of collectors talking about how this coin is not getting any cheaper. So I grabbed it. I think this type was struck February - March, 44 B.C., in the last few weeks of JC’s life. Maybe it’s a bit gauche to speak so frankly about price, but when I’m shopping around for a coin, I find frankness helpful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 3321156, member: 83956"][ATTACH=full]880354[/ATTACH] Here’s mine, a DICT PERPETVO lifetime portrait denarius, purchased in March of 2018. The fact that I was in a position to get one in my price range was the result of a series of fortuitous circumstances. Some of you may remember that earlier in the year I realized that a Julius Caesar Aeneas denarius I owned was fake. I sent it back to the Spanish seller for a full refund. While I was waiting for the refund to be posted (about $300), this JC coin came on the market in the VCoins store “Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger” for about €500. I’m a guy who rarely spends over $100 on a coin, so $640 or so delivered is a lot of money to me. But as luck would have it, I had a little extra cash on hand and was awaiting that cash return for the forgery. I decided to put it all together for this coin. Honestly, had I not been forced to return that Aeneas forgery, I wouldn’t have been in a position to buy the JC denarius, so it was a classic case of one door closing but another one opening. (I’ll get that Aeneas coin someday too. Maybe this year.) I also looked at previous Cointalk threads and saw a number of collectors talking about how this coin is not getting any cheaper. So I grabbed it. I think this type was struck February - March, 44 B.C., in the last few weeks of JC’s life. Maybe it’s a bit gauche to speak so frankly about price, but when I’m shopping around for a coin, I find frankness helpful.[/QUOTE]
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