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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 5449402, member: 80783"]I still need one of these but want a rome mint bronze of Claudius Gothicus first which in itself looks like an almost impossible task.</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP coin must have indeed been intended as a ("reduced") Sestertius and not an As, because the radiate type with the Severina portrait reverse as illustrated by Cucumbor has roughly twice it´s weight. If the laureate type was an As, than the radiate coin would have been a Dupondius, but then there would have been no such weight difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>These illustrate the further desintegration of the AE coinage. While my Sestertii of Aemilian and Salonina weight a mere 12 grams each (only 50 % of that denomination´s average size a century before, which drove older specimens out of circulation and into hoards or the melting pot from the mid 250´s, the same fate shared by the Denarius a decade before), it diminished to 6 grams within a decade. After Aurelian bronze coins were handed out as presentation pieces only and became almost as rare as Medallions during the dynasty of Carus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 5449402, member: 80783"]I still need one of these but want a rome mint bronze of Claudius Gothicus first which in itself looks like an almost impossible task. The OP coin must have indeed been intended as a ("reduced") Sestertius and not an As, because the radiate type with the Severina portrait reverse as illustrated by Cucumbor has roughly twice it´s weight. If the laureate type was an As, than the radiate coin would have been a Dupondius, but then there would have been no such weight difference. These illustrate the further desintegration of the AE coinage. While my Sestertii of Aemilian and Salonina weight a mere 12 grams each (only 50 % of that denomination´s average size a century before, which drove older specimens out of circulation and into hoards or the melting pot from the mid 250´s, the same fate shared by the Denarius a decade before), it diminished to 6 grams within a decade. After Aurelian bronze coins were handed out as presentation pieces only and became almost as rare as Medallions during the dynasty of Carus.[/QUOTE]
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