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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2043756, member: 19463&quot;]I believe it is a sestertius and a coin of Philip I.&nbsp; I do not have experience to be dogmatic but the portrait has too much chin, too much nose and I have not seen a Philip II with the earlier walking Pax.&nbsp; His are the standing with legs together type:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1937709" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1937709" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1937709</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This may be completely wrong but most late sestertii of Philip have a squared off side or two as does your coin.&nbsp; Asses are rounder???</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=240454" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=240454" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=240454</a></p><p>Many of them are lighter than this.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have a Pax but these two below are 13.9g and 11.7g respectively.&nbsp; I consider them sestertii.&nbsp;&nbsp; When I think of later asses, I think rounded edges and even lighter.&nbsp; This is a feeling not an absolute.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]373715[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]373716[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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