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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2317151, member: 74282"]It's an interesting question to ponder and one that I've thought about myself. Unfortunately I don't have a concrete answer, but my educated guess would be that the sestertius is too small to be practical, and a 4-as bronze coin would be too big to be practical as a single coin. Attempts seem to have been made to reintroduce the sestertius before the Imperatorial period such as <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/12018818086/in/photolist-9nwVBn-8LTYGZ-jz3zm6-7yPZz1-uVUsVE-84F5hk-8TpxpG-jj4zTu-cUHzaE-8Tmo9r-8Tpto1-dBfPvU-c7L4gL-dBfPQf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/12018818086/in/photolist-9nwVBn-8LTYGZ-jz3zm6-7yPZz1-uVUsVE-84F5hk-8TpxpG-jj4zTu-cUHzaE-8Tmo9r-8Tpto1-dBfPvU-c7L4gL-dBfPQf" rel="nofollow">this one</a> minted in 91 BC under D. Junius Silanus L.f. and <a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2375526" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2375526" rel="nofollow">this one</a> of L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi in 90 BC. It seems to me that these were possibly experiments in seeing if a sestertius could catch on and the decision was made not to continue minting them because they weren't popular with the masses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2317151, member: 74282"]It's an interesting question to ponder and one that I've thought about myself. Unfortunately I don't have a concrete answer, but my educated guess would be that the sestertius is too small to be practical, and a 4-as bronze coin would be too big to be practical as a single coin. Attempts seem to have been made to reintroduce the sestertius before the Imperatorial period such as [URL='https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/12018818086/in/photolist-9nwVBn-8LTYGZ-jz3zm6-7yPZz1-uVUsVE-84F5hk-8TpxpG-jj4zTu-cUHzaE-8Tmo9r-8Tpto1-dBfPvU-c7L4gL-dBfPQf']this one[/URL] minted in 91 BC under D. Junius Silanus L.f. and [URL='http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2375526']this one[/URL] of L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi in 90 BC. It seems to me that these were possibly experiments in seeing if a sestertius could catch on and the decision was made not to continue minting them because they weren't popular with the masses.[/QUOTE]
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