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Message:: [QUOTE="rasielsuarez, post: 25917229, member: 148921"]I'm sorry no one has answered your question. And I'm not sure there's one right answer to it but in my opinion I think this is a bit of a storm in a teacup. The 12 caesars is an arbitrary thing. It came about because a famous Roman historian wrote about the first 12 emperors. That's just when he happened to live. Had he lived another decade it would've been 13. Anyway, there were a total of 96 emperors (including usurpers) from the time of Octavian up until the fall of Rome in 476. So for a collector like me who used to try to complete a collection of Wheat pennies from 1909-1959 the most natural goal when getting into ancients was to try for one of each of these guys. Or go big - the enchilada as you call it - and get the full set including all the wives and kids who also appeared on the coins. That's 191 in total. And yeah, impossible as has been noted already BUT, as has also been noted, the fun is in seeing how close you can get. I'm at 75% complete in a year and a half of collecting. 90% is within fairly easy reach. You do need a generous budget though to get to that level. A very generous budget. But 50%? Yeah, piece of cake. Here's a snapshot of my collection as of today. [ATTACH=full]1650221[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]