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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25907900, member: 10461&quot;]Yes.&nbsp; Just in the intervening decade between the time I finished my (low budget) <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picture-repost-my-twelve-caesars-roman-collection-from-2011-2013.296895/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picture-repost-my-twelve-caesars-roman-collection-from-2011-2013.296895/">first Twelve Caesars set</a> in 2013 and <a href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/collection-items/21345/coins-ancient-to-romans-imperial-and-republican-the-twelve-caesars-of-rome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/collection-items/21345/coins-ancient-to-romans-imperial-and-republican-the-twelve-caesars-of-rome" rel="nofollow">the second set I only recently completed</a>, those lifetime portrait JCs have gotten ridiculously pricey!</p><p><br /></p><p>The one in my first set cost me slightly below $500 a decade ago. It was a low grade “ugly duckling”, but it was a portrait issue from just before the assassination, had a reasonably clear portrait, and most of Caesar’s name visible on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1649977[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The one I acquired earlier this year for my <i>second</i>, recently-completed Twelve Caesars set cost me €1,400 plus assorted fees.&nbsp; And while it’s certainly an improvement over my first one, it’s still only a middling example with a ragged flan and some banker’s marks.&nbsp; I went into my rationale for purchasing it <b><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/found-and-won-a-julius-caesar-lifetime-denarius-at-last.413011/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/found-and-won-a-julius-caesar-lifetime-denarius-at-last.413011/">here.</a></b></p><p><br /></p><p>NGC has graded it Ch F with the banker’s mark and “scratches” noted.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1649979[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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