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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2458329, member: 51347&quot;]Congrats on a fine Aes Grave capture!&nbsp; Great coin... nice tortoise!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few Aes Grave, and really love them.&nbsp; I love their thickness in casting.&nbsp; The 2nd pic is of the gate, where the melted bronze enters the coin mold.&nbsp; It also illustrates the thickness of this lower denomination of the Aes Grave series.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]514841[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]514842[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Roman Republic</b></p><p><b>Æ Aes Grave Sextans </b></p><p>Anonymous Issue</p><p>Circa 270 BCE</p><p>37mm, 55.28 g, 12h. ....12.3mm THICK!</p><p>Libral standard. Uncertain mint.</p><p>Obv: Head of Dioscurus right; two pellets (mark of value) behind</p><p>Rev: Head of Dioscurus left; two pellets (mark of value) behind.</p><p>Sear 552; Crawford 18/5; ICC 37; HN Italy 283; Thurlow &amp; Vecchi 12</p><p>Comments: dark green patina.</p><p><i>Ex: CNG; Auktionshaus Meister &amp; Sonntag 2 (20 September 2004), lot 1031.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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