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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2748513, member: 10461"]<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picture-repost-some-of-my-old-2007-08-roman-imperial-collection.296837/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picture-repost-some-of-my-old-2007-08-roman-imperial-collection.296837/">My first Roman collection was done in 2007-08</a>. It was an "A-to-Z" (Augustus to Zeno) collection, which focused on portrait coins from as many different personalities as I could afford.</p><p><br /></p><p>My second Roman collection was this <b>"Twelve Caesars" </b>set. I retired this collection in 2013 and have since sold off the coins, but I was proud to say I completed it, which was quite challenging on my modest budget. </p><p><br /></p><p>I stayed under $500/coin here, even for the Julius Caesar lifetime portrait denarius and the Otho (though I did have to stretch a tiny bit above that for the Caligula seen here, which upgraded two prior ones that both succumbed to terminal bronze disease. I've only had two coins with bronze disease ever, and both had to be Caligulas. How unlucky is that?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I did OK and managed to put together a fairly respectable collection for the budget. Not everyone agrees with slabbing ancients, but in this case, they looked pretty handsome in the fancy wooden box I got for them.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC00-Box-005000-pic1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC00-Box-005000-pic2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842183&STARTPAGE=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842183&STARTPAGE=1" rel="nofollow">JULIUS CAESAR (d. 44 BC), silver denarius, lifetime issue struck February-March 44 BC by moneyer C. Cossutius Maridianus</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC01-JuliusCaesar-046800-frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842184&STARTPAGE=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842184&STARTPAGE=1" rel="nofollow">AUGUSTUS (27 BC-14 AD), bronze as, struck ca. 7 BC, moneyer M. Salvius Otho</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC02-Augustus-012500-frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842185" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842185" rel="nofollow">TIBERIUS (14-37 AD), silver denarius- the biblical "Tribute Penny"</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC03-Tiberius-026000-frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=877820" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=877820" rel="nofollow">GAIUS "CALIGULA" (37-41 AD), bronze as</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC04-Caligula-053725-frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842186" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842186" rel="nofollow">CLAUDIUS (41-54 AD), bronze as</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC05-Claudius-014000-frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=837994&STARTPAGE=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=837994&STARTPAGE=1" rel="nofollow">NERO, orichalcum dupondius, struck ca. 64 AD</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC06b-Nero-026500-frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=886954" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=886954" rel="nofollow">GALBA (68-69 AD, bronze as</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC07-Galba-019700-frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842188" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842188" rel="nofollow">OTHO (January-April, 69 AD) silver denarius</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC08-Otho-062500-frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842189" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842189" rel="nofollow">VITELLIUS (April-December, 69 AD) silver denarius</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC09-Vitellius-019884-frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842190" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842190" rel="nofollow">VESPASIAN (69-79 AD), silver denarius, "Judaea Capta" type</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC10-Vespasian-030500-frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842191&STARTPAGE=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842191&STARTPAGE=1" rel="nofollow">TITUS (79-81 AD): silver denarius, struck ca. 80 AD</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC11-Titus-007609-frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842192" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842192" rel="nofollow">DOMITIAN (81-96 AD), silver denarius, struck ca. 92 AD</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC12-Domitian-019600--frame.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2748513, member: 10461"][URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picture-repost-some-of-my-old-2007-08-roman-imperial-collection.296837/']My first Roman collection was done in 2007-08[/URL]. It was an "A-to-Z" (Augustus to Zeno) collection, which focused on portrait coins from as many different personalities as I could afford. My second Roman collection was this [B]"Twelve Caesars" [/B]set. I retired this collection in 2013 and have since sold off the coins, but I was proud to say I completed it, which was quite challenging on my modest budget. I stayed under $500/coin here, even for the Julius Caesar lifetime portrait denarius and the Otho (though I did have to stretch a tiny bit above that for the Caligula seen here, which upgraded two prior ones that both succumbed to terminal bronze disease. I've only had two coins with bronze disease ever, and both had to be Caligulas. How unlucky is that?) I think I did OK and managed to put together a fairly respectable collection for the budget. Not everyone agrees with slabbing ancients, but in this case, they looked pretty handsome in the fancy wooden box I got for them. [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC00-Box-005000-pic1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC00-Box-005000-pic2.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842183&STARTPAGE=1']JULIUS CAESAR (d. 44 BC), silver denarius, lifetime issue struck February-March 44 BC by moneyer C. Cossutius Maridianus[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC01-JuliusCaesar-046800-frame.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842184&STARTPAGE=1']AUGUSTUS (27 BC-14 AD), bronze as, struck ca. 7 BC, moneyer M. Salvius Otho[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC02-Augustus-012500-frame.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842185']TIBERIUS (14-37 AD), silver denarius- the biblical "Tribute Penny"[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC03-Tiberius-026000-frame.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=877820']GAIUS "CALIGULA" (37-41 AD), bronze as[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC04-Caligula-053725-frame.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842186']CLAUDIUS (41-54 AD), bronze as[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC05-Claudius-014000-frame.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=837994&STARTPAGE=1']NERO, orichalcum dupondius, struck ca. 64 AD[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC06b-Nero-026500-frame.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=886954']GALBA (68-69 AD, bronze as[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC07-Galba-019700-frame.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842188']OTHO (January-April, 69 AD) silver denarius[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC08-Otho-062500-frame.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842189']VITELLIUS (April-December, 69 AD) silver denarius[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC09-Vitellius-019884-frame.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842190']VESPASIAN (69-79 AD), silver denarius, "Judaea Capta" type[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC10-Vespasian-030500-frame.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842191&STARTPAGE=1']TITUS (79-81 AD): silver denarius, struck ca. 80 AD[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC11-Titus-007609-frame.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=842192']DOMITIAN (81-96 AD), silver denarius, struck ca. 92 AD[/URL] [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/12%20Caesars%20Roman%20Coin%20Collection/TC12-Domitian-019600--frame.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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