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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7962839, member: 85693&quot;]Very nice coin, and informative, enjoyable write-up, [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER].&nbsp; I don&#039;t have any Liberalitas silver for Severus Alexander, but I do have two bronzes (one of them with a shaky attribution; the reverse on the as is very worn): </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1380457[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Severus Alexander&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ As </b></p><p><b>(c. 222-231 A.D.)&nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP CAES M AVR SEV ALEX[ANDER AVG] laureate, draped, bust right / LIBERALITAS AVGVST SC, Liberalitas standing left, holding coin counter and cornucopiae.</p><p>RIC 569.</p><p>(14.70 grams / 27 x 25 mm)</p><p>eBay Feb. 2020&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1380458[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Severus Alexander Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(229 A.D.) </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP SEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate head right, draped left shoulder / LIBERALITAS</p><p>AVGVSTI IIII, S-C, Liberalitas standing left, holding counter and cornucopiae.</p><p>RIC 575; Cohen 136; BMC 561.</p><p>(14.33 grams / 28 mm)</p><p>eBay May 2019&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I should take photos of these side-by-side - they are almost exactly the same size:</p><p><br /></p><p>As:&nbsp; (14.70 grams / 27 x 25 mm)</p><p>Sestertius:&nbsp; (14.33 grams / 28 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>The only reason I am calling the top one an as is because the die appears to be considerably smaller, if on a large flan.&nbsp; There are threads out there about the &quot;big as&quot; Severus Alexander bronzes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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