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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3982905, member: 44316&quot;]Sestertii are big, but some provincials are bigger. When Leu auctioned this coin last month they described it as 40 mm and I got interested because of its size. Most sestertii of the period are c. 30-31 mm. Because pictures can&#039;t indicate size without some standard of comparison, I put in a denarius of mine to scale (My coins are in the bank, so I did it by scaling the images):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1048639[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The big one is 40-38 mm and 27.36 grams from Aegeae in Cilicia. </p><p>AVT KAI M AV KOMMOΔOC AN</p><p>Bust of Commodus right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed. Countermark of Victory on globe at 3:00 (Howgego 258)</p><p><br /></p><p>KOMOΔIANWN AΔPIAWN AIΓEAIWN ΔΛC</p><p>Diademed and draped bust of Asklepios right, same c/m on head.</p><p><br /></p><p>Struck CY 234 = 187/8. </p><p>RPC IV.3 online 9745, one piece, but Leu thought there were four.</p><p><br /></p><p>The smaller one is a denarius, 18 mm.</p><p>Struck 183/4. </p><p>RIC 74.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very large provincials are sometimes called &quot;medallions.&quot; I don&#039;t they are like imperial &quot;medallions&quot; which are not normal circulating currency, but I think the very large provincials were usually just large denominations for cities that did not mint silver coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lanz auction catalog 92 (June 1999) was a very unusual sale catalog--it included over 90 provincials c. 36 mm or larger.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Show us a very large Roman provincial coin![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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