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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 7371425, member: 80952&quot;]The only Antoninus Pius with Fides I can find is a Dupondius (I am not counting the Sestertii)</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.553" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.553" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.553</a></p><p>However yours is certainly an As due to the weight. The coin couldn&#039;t have lost 5 grams from its weight, even if it&#039;s heavily worn...</p><p>I think I see some traces of radiate crown, but I doubt it very much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another coin from Antoninus Pius&#039;s reign with this reverse is</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1288A_as" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1288A_as" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1288A_as</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But the portrait in your coin is definitely Pius, not Marcus Aurelius.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see two scenarios here 1. your coin is the As variant of RIC 553, not listed in RIC&nbsp; 2. the reverse is NOT Fides with grain ears and basket.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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