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<p>[QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 7669229, member: 91820"]The left facing As is beautiful - I like the bust type. I bought my Geta as Caesar on ebay for a reasonable price (far less than four figures). It had been listed for a very short time, the seller did not regularly sell ancient coins, and I do not think he realized its rarity. I should have but did not ask how he got it. I had found another, also reasonably priced, but the obverse portrait was very poorly tooled.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that is it - years of searching for an affordable example, scouring the listings and catalog sales. I tried to look for worn ones that most would pass over - Heritage had this one in 2019:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=geta+as+caesar+sestertius&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=geta+as+caesar+sestertius&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=geta+as+caesar+sestertius&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></p><p><br /></p><p>But, to my surprise, the coin went for well over $1000. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the one on German ebay, and is as Augustus and is quite rare:</p><p><br /></p><p>ebay.de/itm/324663284026?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20170511121231%26meid%3D8154472329ed49708ab1402693b81959%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D154491046618%26itm%3D324663284026%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A01f0796d-cc57-11eb-8074-42dd33306aaa%7Cparentrq%3A05dc52fa17a0a64d71f1d02dfff44923%7Ciid%3A1</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for the lengthy link - unfortunately whoever "cleaned" this coin did it far too well - although I am convinced the coin is genuine, coins in this condition simply do not exist in nature without tooling. Makes you wonder what it looked like when cleaned - the seller probably could have got close to this price even if worn.</p><p><br /></p><p>CNG sold this one for about $1800 - I think they were wrong about it being tooled, and it has subsequently been sold for many multiples of the CNG price with no mention of tooling:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=geta+sestertius&category=1-" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=geta+sestertius&category=1-" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=geta+sestertius&category=1-</a></p><p>2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0</p><p><br /></p><p>This wonderful example went for only a few hundred dollars - that isn't going to happen again!:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=geta+sestertius&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=geta+sestertius&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=geta+sestertius&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></p><p><br /></p><p>The "dinner plate" medallions seem to come up every once in a while and sell for prices that would require a mortgage. You really have to wonder why these were struck - I recall reading history books in school where, once the battle was won, or the new King was installed, they would have a celebration, which included, among to her things, a coin being struck- maybe, like so many things this was an echo from ancient Rome. It may show that coins that were not regular mint issues, but struck to commemorate a specific one time event, are very rare. But these really must have been limited - plenty of coins struck for one time events are common or nearly so. Maybe the coins were only distributed in Rome and given to dinner guests? Sheer speculation without a shred of evidence.</p><p><br /></p><p>In short, as to why the sestertii were struck - I haven't a clue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 7669229, member: 91820"]The left facing As is beautiful - I like the bust type. I bought my Geta as Caesar on ebay for a reasonable price (far less than four figures). It had been listed for a very short time, the seller did not regularly sell ancient coins, and I do not think he realized its rarity. I should have but did not ask how he got it. I had found another, also reasonably priced, but the obverse portrait was very poorly tooled. And that is it - years of searching for an affordable example, scouring the listings and catalog sales. I tried to look for worn ones that most would pass over - Heritage had this one in 2019: [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=geta+as+caesar+sestertius&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1¤cy=usd&order=0[/URL] But, to my surprise, the coin went for well over $1000. This is the one on German ebay, and is as Augustus and is quite rare: ebay.de/itm/324663284026?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20170511121231%26meid%3D8154472329ed49708ab1402693b81959%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D154491046618%26itm%3D324663284026%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A01f0796d-cc57-11eb-8074-42dd33306aaa%7Cparentrq%3A05dc52fa17a0a64d71f1d02dfff44923%7Ciid%3A1 Sorry for the lengthy link - unfortunately whoever "cleaned" this coin did it far too well - although I am convinced the coin is genuine, coins in this condition simply do not exist in nature without tooling. Makes you wonder what it looked like when cleaned - the seller probably could have got close to this price even if worn. CNG sold this one for about $1800 - I think they were wrong about it being tooled, and it has subsequently been sold for many multiples of the CNG price with no mention of tooling: [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=geta+sestertius&category=1-[/URL] 2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1¤cy=usd&order=0 This wonderful example went for only a few hundred dollars - that isn't going to happen again!: [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=geta+sestertius&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1¤cy=usd&order=0[/URL] The "dinner plate" medallions seem to come up every once in a while and sell for prices that would require a mortgage. You really have to wonder why these were struck - I recall reading history books in school where, once the battle was won, or the new King was installed, they would have a celebration, which included, among to her things, a coin being struck- maybe, like so many things this was an echo from ancient Rome. It may show that coins that were not regular mint issues, but struck to commemorate a specific one time event, are very rare. But these really must have been limited - plenty of coins struck for one time events are common or nearly so. Maybe the coins were only distributed in Rome and given to dinner guests? Sheer speculation without a shred of evidence. In short, as to why the sestertii were struck - I haven't a clue.[/QUOTE]
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