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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;catadc, post: 3786580, member: 103515&quot;]Normally I do not buy coins I do not know about. This one was interesting for unclear reasons (can I use the &quot;spoke to me&quot; reason?) and it was the price of a cheap canteen lunch, no dessert. Normally I do not dive under year 200 a.d.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is 22.5-25 mm and 8.97 gr.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I am pretty sure it is: Marcus Aurelius as or dupondius struck under Antoninus Pius, AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII F COS, bare head right / IVVENTAS S C, Juventas, wearing a long robe, standing left, holding a patera, sprinkling incense on a candelabrum. RIC 1238, Sear 4831.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the questions:</p><p>I had a look on wildwinds, acsearch and a few online stores and the legend split on the obverse is CAE-SAR. For my coin, seems to be CAES-AR, with a clear -AR to the right and I can guess an S on the left side, which is the split I saw on denari. On the obverse, the position of S C and the shape of the candelabrum seems to vary a lot. But I saw no variance on the split of CAESAR. Would such a variation be possible?</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it an as or a dupondius? What I read is that dupondius is made of orichalcum, which seems to be the case.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last - any reasons to doubt the originality? The rim seems fine. The weight is a little low, on which I would blame the size of the blank (part of legend is off-flan).</p><p><br /></p><p>Any comments appreciated. Thank you</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1011108[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1011110[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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