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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 25458015, member: 101855&quot;]Here are the two pieces in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1629518[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This piece was made to pay Julius Caesar&#039;s soldiers while he was alive. The design, which has several variations, is by far the most common contemporary Julius Caesar coin. It&#039;s not cheap, however. You can expect to pay a couple thousand for a nice one.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1629519[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This portrait piece was issued 11 months after Caesar&#039;s assassination. The Mark Anthony side is really the obverse, but I bought it for the Caesar portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>The preservation is among the best that I have seen in my searches on the Internet of past auctions. It was struck off-center, however, and that lowers the value. It still cost around $2,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have bid on Julius Caesar coins with his portrait, but have not been successful. I bid $11,000 on one, which would have left me paying $13,200 with the buyers&#039; fee. I still didn&#039;t get it. That bid was higher than the same variety had sold for previously. As usual one person decides he or she is going to buy something, and there is no way you can out bid them.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s why I hate auctions. My impression is if some of these people were offered the same coin at bourse for less money, they wouldn&#039;t buy it. I, on the other hand, would gladly buy it. I much prefer a bourse to an auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of contemporary Julius Caesar coins with the goddess Venus on them. I really don&#039;t care for those, and have never gone after them. They cost a few to several thousand dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can buy damaged pieces, but they are still in the $2,000 to $3,000 range.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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