Bigger is Better

Okay guys. Can you stop laughing now? LoL! This is my biggest and heaviest coin. The most I can say about this coin is that it is
25.4 mm at its widest point and weights 9.7 grams.

I am calling the first view the obverse and my eye keeps wanting to see a head of an animal like a wolf or maybe even two profiles of wolves. On the 'reverse' my brain keeps having my eye see a figure striding right - looks like it is carrying something long across the body. There's a name for that condition - pareidolia? I've got a bad case of that with this coin.

Coins are so fun!!

 

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This decassarion is pretty big as far as provincials go:


Cornelia Salonina, wife of Gallienus, AD 253-268
Roman provincial Æ decassarion, 18.56 g, 28.8 mm
Pamphylia, Side AD 253-268
Obv: ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΑ CΑΛΩΝΙΝΑ CΕΒΑ, diademed and draped bust, r., I (=10) before.
Rev: CΙΔΗΤΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ, Apollo standing, facing, head l., holding patera and resting on scepter surmounted by flower(?).
Refs: BMC 163, 123 var.; SGI 4647 var.; SNG von Aulock 4861.
Notes: Die match to lot #80, CNG electronic auction 137, 12/04/2006.

 

A fair sized Sestertius at 36mm

NERO CLAUDIUS DRUSUS
AE Sestertius
OBVERSE: NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS GERMANICVS IMP - Bare head left
REVERSE: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TRP IMP Exe: SC - Claudius seated left, holding branch; weapons on floor
Rome 41BC-2 AD
28.6g, 36mm
RIC 93