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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2768611, member: 10461&quot;]Having started collecting in 1976 (as a lad of not quite eleven years), my numismatic history also reaches back into &quot;olden days&quot;, and though I&#039;m &quot;only&quot; 51 now, I feel &quot;fogeyhood&quot; approaching, myself.&nbsp; I remember having the opportunity to buy a Nero aureus for $900 in the late 1990s, but $900 to me then might as well have been $9,000 (and is <i>still </i>no trifling sum to me today).</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe I will own one some day and maybe I won&#039;t.&nbsp; Congratulations on a fine looking Nero.&nbsp; I have noticed that many of the affordable circulated ones seem to come from Nero&#039;s reign, for some reason?&nbsp; He also seems well-represented in many of the hoards I&#039;ve read about.&nbsp; Which is fine by me.&nbsp; He&#039;s certainly a colorful character- and colorful characters- good or bad- are what make the Roman emperors (and their coins) so interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thought of a dealer sending an aureus out on approval, unsolicited, for a $300 price, <i>does </i>seem quite remarkable now, doesn&#039;t it?&nbsp; Tempus fugit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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