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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8253011, member: 110350&quot;]These are all fantastic sets, not least @svessian&#039;s and [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER]&#039;s newly-posted ones. Even though I have 10 of the 12 in various metals (and multiple examples of 8 of those 10) -- I&#039;m entirely missing only Julius Caesar and Otho -- completing a set is not a particular goal of mine. Although if someone wants to give me the ones I&#039;m missing, I won&#039;t say no! I very much doubt I&#039;ll ever have Caligula or Claudius in Imperial Silver. Just too expensive. Julius Caesar and Otho are almost as pricey in terms of cost -- I&#039;d have to spend well over $1,000 for a decent example of the former, and close to $1,000 for the latter. If I&#039;m going to spend that much money on a coin, there are others (certain Roman Republican denarii, Imperial gold, etc.) I&#039;d rather spend it on. Even putting a set together regardless of metal and regardless of whether the coins are Imperial or Provincial would be tough. I&#039;ve been tempted by some affordable Otho Provincials, but he looks nothing like his Imperial portrait on any of them.&nbsp; If that&#039;s the case, then the way I see it, what&#039;s the point?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my 10. 9 are Imperial (because the Augustus cistophorus is catalogued as both Imperial and Provincial) and one, the Roman Alexandrian tetradrachm of Claudius and his mother Antonia, is Provincial. I could substitute one of the two Claudius Imperial asses I have, but I like this coin better.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454528[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454540[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454531[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454532[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454533[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454534[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454535[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454536[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454537[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454538[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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