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<p>[QUOTE="Salaethus, post: 4216157, member: 109856"]Bump for your thread! Seems it got buried.</p><p>I won this sestertius the other day that has at least five spears on the reverse! I also think there might be a lance and a pole arm. Notice how the ground line / exergue is a spear as well. The coin celebrates the conclusion of the first Marcomannic war and Marcus Aurelius' victories over the Sarmatian Iazyges.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1079821[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Marcus Aurelius Æ sestertius. Rome, 176-177 AD. M ANTONINVS AVG GER-M SARM TR P XXXI, Laureate bust of Marcus Aurelius right / IMP VIII COS III P P, Pile of arms consisting of Sarmatian scale cuirass, helmet; numerous shields, spears, trumpets, and vexilla; <b>lance at 11h and pole arm at 1h(?)</b>, S-C in fields, DE SARMATIS in exergue which is a spear. RIC 1190; MIR 18, 373-6/30; Banti 67.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Salaethus, post: 4216157, member: 109856"]Bump for your thread! Seems it got buried. I won this sestertius the other day that has at least five spears on the reverse! I also think there might be a lance and a pole arm. Notice how the ground line / exergue is a spear as well. The coin celebrates the conclusion of the first Marcomannic war and Marcus Aurelius' victories over the Sarmatian Iazyges. [ATTACH=full]1079821[/ATTACH] [B]Marcus Aurelius Æ sestertius. Rome, 176-177 AD. M ANTONINVS AVG GER-M SARM TR P XXXI, Laureate bust of Marcus Aurelius right / IMP VIII COS III P P, Pile of arms consisting of Sarmatian scale cuirass, helmet; numerous shields, spears, trumpets, and vexilla; [B]lance at 11h and pole arm at 1h(?)[/B], S-C in fields, DE SARMATIS in exergue which is a spear. RIC 1190; MIR 18, 373-6/30; Banti 67.[/B][/QUOTE]
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