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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeptimusT, post: 3977952, member: 91240&quot;]I received this coin today from a lot I purchased on eBay. I was planning to sell off the uninteresting ones and keep a couple that I liked, but this one stands out because of its flan and weight. The reverse is Libertas, who appears on an as (<a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.sa.494b" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.sa.494b" rel="nofollow">RIC 494b</a>) and a sestertius (<a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.sa.492b" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.sa.492b" rel="nofollow">RIC 492b</a>); this particular coin weighs 9.62g and has a diameter of 29mm. That&#039;s closer to sestertius size, but light even for an as. Besides that, the flan has a very odd edge, but not one which screams &#039;fake&#039; to me; it has roughly cut sprues at 11 and 5 o&#039;clock, but the rest of it has the weird double edge appearance shown in the photo below. I haven&#039;t handled any 3rd century large bronzes, but I know that the weight standards and quality control are a bit scattered. Is this just a case of that, or is there something interesting here, such as a sestertius die struck on an as flan? </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1047081[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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