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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2414353, member: 19463"]<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=balbinus&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=balbinus&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=balbinus&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=</a> I am amazed at the number of Balbinus coins available in high grade and prices to match.  There is quite a variation in style including some really nice die work.  Certainly Pupienus is similar and I find more of his portraits to be high quality (more handsome subject?).  In both cases the best work is on larger flans of sestertii and antoniniani.  If shopping for Pupienus, look for a nice antoninianus with the clasped hands reverse. I have neither having sold my sestertii in my 1974 sell off.  I will show a relatively more rare sestertius of the Caesar named to succeed Balbinus and Pupienus.  Since he went on to become Augustus and have the most common coins of the era, collectors give no respect to issues of Gordian III as Caesar.[ATTACH=full]499384[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]