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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2831327, member: 72818&quot;]That certainly was true for me with these two purchases-----SIZE DOES MATTER<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, since I doubt I would&#039;ve &#039;pulled the trigger&#039; if they were the more typical bronzes of about &#039;quarter size&#039;, despite averaging less than $45.00 each shipped.</p><p>Both are about 34 mm----sestertius size or about the size of a modern silver dollar and weigh 16-18 grams respectively. I liked the overall eye-appeal: the dark chocolate and greenish patinas and the cool reverses---confronted portraits and River Gods....</p><p><br /></p><p>CILICIA, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Gallienus. 253-268 AD. AE34. 16grams</p><p>Obv: AV T K POU LIK GALLIHNOC, radiate draped cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev: CELE UKEWNWN PROS KALU KADNW (below, above and around),</p><p>Confronted busts of Apollo, laureate, facing right, laurel</p><p>branch before, and Artemis-Tyche, facing left, cornucopiae</p><p>behind.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]667392[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. (34 mm,&nbsp; 18 grams. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Tyche seated left on rocks, holding grain ears; above, star above ram leaping left, head right; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming left. Mcalee</p><p>[ATTACH=full]667393[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Please feel free to pile on with anything relevant<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />...but if you choose to go even BIGGER...I believe [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER]&nbsp; will astound you with her humongous Ptolemaic bronze<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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