Lets Assemble the Cheapest 12 Caesars Set in History!!

Here's a $1 Augustus, but better yet, it also features Quinctilius Varus (Give me back my Legions!)

 

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this is my 2.5$ Vitellius sestertius , from un uncleaned lot...
Can you distinguish the emperor ? , the reverse is not visible

 

I'd recognize that fat bastard anywhere!!!! (bastard being used figuratively, I think! )

 

you cant just take the whole lot price of 200 coins for $200 of mostly unidentifiable junk + 1 identifiable denarius and say i got this denarius for $1 lol

 

Well here it is:

JC: $3.50
Augustus: $1.00
Tiberius: $4.17
Caligula: $17.50
Claudius: $1.00
Nero: $5.00
Otho: $12.00
Galba: $0.96
Vitellius: $2.50
Vespasian: $15.00
Titus: $1.00
Domitian: $8.50

***We can do BETTER (or worse.. depending how you look at it)

A Twelve Caesars Set for $72.12
I also think we could do "better" on that Vespasian and Bing's Caligula is just too darn nice for this group.





@arnoldoe does have a good point.. perhaps we should exclude bulk lot purchases and stick to individual coin purchases?

 

I agree. Did I really pay $0.73 for my Commodus Herculi Romano, or did I pay more like $50 considering all the rest of the trash it came with?

 

Wow ! good job !

Q

 

Bulk Lot purchases noted.. and lowest individual coin price added.

JC: $3.50
Augustus: $1.00 (BULK LOT) $10 (individual purchase)
Tiberius: $4.17 (BULK LOT) $30 (individual purchase)
Caligula: $17.50
Claudius: $1.00
Nero: $5.00 (BULK LOT) $22 (individual purchase)
Otho: $12.00 (BULK LOT)
Galba: $0.96 (BULK LOT) $28 (individual purchase)
Vitellius: $2.50 (BULK LOT)
Vespasian: $15.00
Titus: $1.00 (BULK LOT) $5 (individual purchase)
Domitian: $8.50

Anyone have an inexpensive Otho or Vitellius? Can you beat any of these prices?

 

...right..but, whose counting

 

To be honest, I probably paid too much for this coin. I ended up paying $15.39 for this coin as an individual purchase.

Nero
AE As
65 A.D.
Obverse: NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head right.
Reverse: S-C, Victory flying left with shield inscribed SPQR.
Rome
Diameter: 26.0 mm
Weight 9.16 gr.
RIC 314, Sear 1976



Reverse:

 

Very good exercise. The hobby of collecting ancient money is open to all!

 

Calculating the average price per coin , we can have the reverse situation , were the coin posted belongs to the worst part of the lot, the unidentifiable junk.
I this case , a coin like this with a average price of 2.5$ was overestimated.

 

Here is a contender for individual purchase: double whammy Tiberius + Nero (and Drusus) on a single coin for $35

 

I no longer own this coin, but I only paid $14 for it.

CLAUDIUS
AE As
OBVERSE: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG PM TR P IMP P P, bare head left.
REVERSE: Minerva advancing right, holding shield and brandishing a javelin, S-C across fields
Struck at Rome, 50-4AD
9.7g, 28m
RIC 116

And here is a rather inexpensive Nero at $26:

NERO
AE As
OBVERSE: NERO CAESAR AVG GERM IMP - Laureate head left
REVERSE: No legend - Victory advancing left, holding shield
Struck at Rome, 65AD
3.8g, 23mm
RIC 313, BMC 245

 

Bulk Lot purchases noted.. and lowest individual coin price added.

JC: $3.50
Augustus: $1.00 (BULK LOT) $10 (individual purchase)
Tiberius: $4.17 (BULK LOT) $30 (individual purchase)
Caligula: $17.50 (individual purchase)
Claudius: $1.00 (individual purchase)
Nero: $5.00 (BULK LOT) $15.39 (individual purchase)
Otho: $12.00 (BULK LOT) ??????
Galba: $0.96 (BULK LOT) $28 (individual purchase)
Vitellius: $2.50 (BULK LOT) ??????
Vespasian: $15.00 (individual purchase)
Titus: $1.00 (BULK LOT) $5 (individual purchase)
Domitian: $8.50 (individual purchase)

Anyone have an inexpensive Otho or Vitellius? Can you beat any of these prices?
Total: $133.89 for 10 of the 12.... so far.

 

This has been great fun so far.

 

$7.95 shipped for this Domitian provincial from Iconium:

 

Here's a Vitellius that was bought solo (not part of a group lot) for $17.50 as it was incorrectly identified as Vespasian. RPC 5376, BMCG 219, Milne 378

 

Here's another for the list... Vespasian bought as a (questionable) individual purchase for $6.50.

Vespasian - Rome (for Syria) - RIC II 756

 

One more... part of a group lot but cheaper than the group lot coin above... Otho in a lot of 16 terrible and worn Alexandrian Obols and Diobols for a total of $31.00 or $1.94 a coin.


Otho - Alexandria - Emmett 192