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Message:: [QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3994657, member: 85693"]Oooo.  Now that's my kind of sestertius!  Good price too.  I like it. I too believe this is Marcus Aurelius with Jupiter reverse.  I did an OCRE search and came up with 12 possibilities for this type.  A lot of mine like the OP are only partially attributed because of the variations - if you can't see the Roman numerals, you can't be sure what it is. <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Jupiter%22+AND+denomination_facet%3A%22Sestertius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Marcus+Aurelius%22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Jupiter%22+AND+denomination_facet%3A%22Sestertius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Marcus+Aurelius%22" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet:"Jupiter"+AND+denomination_facet:"Sestertius"+AND+portrait_facet:"Marcus+Aurelius"</a> Here's a pretty poor specimen from my collection - there was just enough of the obverse legend for an ID: [ATTACH=full]1051718[/ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius  Æ Sestertius(172-173 A.D.)Rome Mint M ANTONINVS AVG [TR P X]XVII, laureate head right / [IMP VI COS III S C], Jupiter seated left on throne, holding Victory offering crown in right hand, long sceptre in left hand.RIC 1064.(23.65 grams / 28 mm)[/QUOTE]