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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4578002, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks so much to all of you for your compliments on my new sestertius, and especially to [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER] for having such a nice coin available at such a reasonable price!&nbsp; Also, many thanks to those of you who posted their own &quot;first sestertii&quot; -- they&#039;re all wonderful -- and tried to lure me into buying more!&nbsp; My reason for limiting myself to one sestertius -- at least for now; I&#039;ll put that caveat on it! -- has nothing to do with lack of interest.&nbsp; It&#039;s that right now my eyes are bigger than my budget; I&#039;ve been trying to limit myself to buying coins that are less than $200 or so each.&nbsp; And it&#039;s very hard to find really nice sestertii with that limitation. I know, of course, that in theory I could buy one very nice sestertius for $450 and simply forego the next three $150 coins I would otherwise buy at that time.&nbsp; But knowing myself as I do -- and that I don&#039;t have the strongest willpower when it comes to refraining from buying coins I really want! -- I&#039;m pretty sure that what would happen would be that I&#039;d buy the sestertius for $450, and end up buying those next three $150 coins anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus, even apart from the monetary aspect, I know from reading posts in this forum for the last 4 1/2 months since I joined that it&#039;s not at all unusual for unscrupulous or uninformed sellers to offer sestertii with considerable smoothing and, worse, tooling. That doesn&#039;t seem to happen so much with denarii and other silver coins, assuming that they&#039;re genuine in the first place. And I don&#039;t necessarily trust myself to detect smoothing or tooling unless they&#039;re really obvious.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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