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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4980162, member: 19463"]I see nothing at all odd about that. The Otho is a rather run of the mill mint state coin with legend loss and less than the finest style. Sure it is miles ahead of anything I will ever own but, in this game, it is up against a Titus described as possibly the finest know bronze of Titus (even if it is a mere dupondius) and ten other coins that are mostly too good to be selling as a set/lot. I would expect the buyer of that set to break it up starting with replacing the Otho with a coin matching the merits of the rest. Unfortunately, the next step would probably be to replace the Titus with an aureus of proper merit. Dupondii get no respect. We have people on this list that could justify buying that set to upgrade a couple of their 'set' coins. This brings up a question we all face. Is it better to have a set that is all the best coin we can get even if the Othos and Caligula are junkers relative to the others or would it be better to have a set of matching denarii that look 'right' together and do not draw attention to the faults of the set-mates? Each can collect as they wish. I own a coin of each of the twelve but I do not think of them as a Twelve Caesars 'set'. They are coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Who remembers sales where coins in such a set would have been offered individually on a provisional basis and then as a group starting at the sum of the individuals. If a bid for the set exceeded the sum of the parts, the provisional sales would all be vacated. Do they do this sort of thing anymore?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4980162, member: 19463"]I see nothing at all odd about that. The Otho is a rather run of the mill mint state coin with legend loss and less than the finest style. Sure it is miles ahead of anything I will ever own but, in this game, it is up against a Titus described as possibly the finest know bronze of Titus (even if it is a mere dupondius) and ten other coins that are mostly too good to be selling as a set/lot. I would expect the buyer of that set to break it up starting with replacing the Otho with a coin matching the merits of the rest. Unfortunately, the next step would probably be to replace the Titus with an aureus of proper merit. Dupondii get no respect. We have people on this list that could justify buying that set to upgrade a couple of their 'set' coins. This brings up a question we all face. Is it better to have a set that is all the best coin we can get even if the Othos and Caligula are junkers relative to the others or would it be better to have a set of matching denarii that look 'right' together and do not draw attention to the faults of the set-mates? Each can collect as they wish. I own a coin of each of the twelve but I do not think of them as a Twelve Caesars 'set'. They are coins. Who remembers sales where coins in such a set would have been offered individually on a provisional basis and then as a group starting at the sum of the individuals. If a bid for the set exceeded the sum of the parts, the provisional sales would all be vacated. Do they do this sort of thing anymore?[/QUOTE]
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