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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 24853486, member: 10461&quot;]I paid $3,565 for my Titus &quot;opening of the Colosseum&quot; elephant aureus, which makes it the second most expensive coin in my collection.&nbsp; (Some might say I spent too much, and they might be right.&nbsp; I bought it at fixed price, retail- but I wanted it and hadn&#039;t had any success in the auction department when it came to aureii.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I did not start buying four-figure coins until after I came into some inheritance money early last year.&nbsp; I had always dreamed of owning an aureus but never thought I&#039;d be able to afford one.&nbsp; Now I have two of them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/95ec23f24c6a426d90ef8c5bcf6682c5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This Titus and my Nero aureus are both in modest grade (F) and well circulated, but I just couldn&#039;t justify spending the money it would have taken me to stretch for a VF or XF.&nbsp; And though I likely spent too much on both, having bought them at full retail, I am happy to have them.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/0bfdc1d3ccd3489ba5278a82484fa936.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As of this writing, the two aureii and my CircCam 1799 US Draped Bust dollar are the only coins I&#039;ve crossed the $3,000 threshold for.</p><p><br /></p><p>I paid too much for the dollar, too- likely <i>way</i> too much- but I thought the toning was worth a premium.&nbsp; That was at auction, and I had stiff competition.&nbsp; It is now my most expensive coin, and likely to remain so for a while, because I&#039;ve slowed down on the post-inheritance spending spree and put the rest of the modest nest egg into a money market account.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/97e4f469e9294bf1914d0b44aaeb1f1a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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