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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3995891, member: 85693&quot;]Well, yours was free and I paid $3.25 for mine.&nbsp; I think you got the better deal!</p><p><br /></p><p>And yeah, I think we don&#039;t have to worry too much about contemporary counterfeiters on these - it&#039;d take a lot of work to make a chunk of metal look this &quot;weathered&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because this post gave me an excuse to do so, I am going to post two of my last, pitiful acquisitions from 2019 - Antoninus Pius sestertii - one with the GENIO SENATVS (Genius of the Senate!) reverse, the other with INDVLGENTIA.</p><p><br /></p><p>In both cases the prices were right, and despite the condition, I thought the somewhat unusual reverse types made them worth it (worth it to me anyway).&nbsp; Or maybe I just have a problem - whenever I see a worn-out sestertius on eBay for around $10-$20 my trigger finger gets itchy! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1052025[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Antoninus Pius&nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(140-144 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[ANTON]INVS AVG PIVS PP T[R P COS III], laureate head right / [GE]NIO [SE]NATV S-C, Genius of the Senate standing left, holding branch and short sceptre.</p><p>RIC 605a; Cohen 400.</p><p>(27.39 grams / 31 x 30 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1052026[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Antoninus Pius&nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(152-153 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[A]NTONINVS AVG PIVS PP TRP XVI, laureate head right / NDVLGENTIA [AVG] COS IIII, [SC below], Indulgentia seated left, extending hand and holding sceptre.</p><p>RIC 904; Cohen 452.</p><p>(24.03 grams / 30 x 29 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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