Ancients => while waiting for the Super-Bowl , I bought a Volusian

ahahaha => yah sorry, I see it ...

... I was merely asking because the antoninianus example in my Sear book has the same type of temple stair-style as your sestertius (my version has fairly large, clunky stairs, while the antoninianus example has a similar stair-style to your example)
thanks ... oh, and as per usual, I feel a bit stupid (baby-steps to having a clue, eh?)

 

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I would love to understand how the mints were organized so I could answer why there are differences like chunky and not temples but I don't. I suspect the officina system was used then also but coins were not marked. Trebonianus Gallus has officina marked coins but not bronzes. Even later when all coins had officina numbers, were the die engravers part of the officinae or did they make dies in common so styles might be more consistent.

I do not have that type in an antoninianus for comparison.

 

okay, thanks for the response