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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2153109, member: 19463&quot;]There was a time that you could get lower grade Pius AE cheaply as long as you avoided his &#039;special&#039; reverses of which he has many.&nbsp; Pius was emperor for a long time and has many really nice reverses but all the ones I have were the old standard someone standing there types.&nbsp; </p><p>Sestertius Pax</p><p>[ATTACH=full]413438[/ATTACH] </p><p>Dupondius Annona (I have had this one for 30 years and the green is not disease!)&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]413440[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As Pius sacrificing - It hurt when I discovered there was VOTA under the figure but it requires imagination to see on mine.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]413439[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>All three of these show color identifying the metal - something I like.&nbsp; There are a lot of worn bronzes from the Trajan-Pius period and a few less from Aurelius and Commodus.&nbsp; Between all these guys there were a lot of coins in circulation by 193 so we see many fewer Severans.&nbsp; The same goes for Alexandria and no one has a better set of bronzes than Pius from Alexandria.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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