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Message:: [QUOTE="Finn235, post: 7777045, member: 98035"]FWIW, I eventually gave up my hunt for one of these because I discovered his cistophorii, which IMO are much more pleasing. This one was relatively inexpensive ($200-250?) But they come a lot nicer, generally under $2,000 unless you go for some "finest known" quality [ATTACH=full]1334074[/ATTACH] These really pop in the folder next to the tiny little denarii[ATTACH=full]1334075[/ATTACH] Ironically, the nicest portraits of Augustus in any metal are the Antiochene tetradrachms, which are one of his very few silver provincials that only come in Greek:<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Augustus+tetradrachm+antioch&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Augustus+tetradrachm+antioch&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Augustus+tetradrachm+antioch&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0</a>[/QUOTE]