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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 25910472, member: 51347&quot;]If Alfoldi&#039;s analysis is correct, yours and mine were minted roughly the same time in the 1st 2 weeks of March 44 BCE prior to Caesar&#039;s execution by the Senate on 15-March.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I reckon he was going bananas pounding out money so that he could go beat up the Persians... That did not truly happen until Trajan bashed them 150 years later.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I saw my coin, its condition, etc., I jumped on it as it seemed a fair price for the time, as well as for the comparatives that I had seen for past purchases on auctions etc.&nbsp; I saw a similar coin&#039;s purchase for 33,000 CHF a few years before mine.&nbsp; My coin was MUCH less than that price.&nbsp; I figgerred that high auction price in 2008 was a frantic bidding war that got out of hand...&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless, I was after a decent in-hand placeholder in human history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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