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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 4643194, member: 4910&quot;]This Antoninus Pius sestertius came cheap but provided me with days of fun trying to identify it as it was not listed in the RIC or Cohen Roman coin catalogs.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_rome_antoninus_sestertius_dacia.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Antoninus Pius Sestertius Dacia</p><p>Obverse: Laureate head right / ANTONINVS AVG PIUS</p><p>Reverse: Dacia standing left, holding crown and sickle / DACIA round edge, S.C. in field</p><p>COS II in exergue</p><p>Size: 32 mm, thickness: 4 mm, weight: 23.58 gm</p><p>Struck: AD 139 Rome mint</p><p><br /></p><p>I found it in a 1937 German catalog of which the University of California had a copy,</p><p><i>Untersuchungen zur römischen Reichsprägung des zweiten Jahrhunderts III Die Reichsprägung zur Zeit Antoninus Pius</i></p><p>by Paul L. Strack, Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer, 1937</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was part of a set issued in AD 139 depicting Roman provinces offering presents to the new Emperor Antoninus.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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