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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8269961, member: 84744&quot;]Late to the party, but couldn&#039;t resist participating in this nice thread.&nbsp; Great OP portrait, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER], I love the early Milan portrait style.&nbsp; Here&#039;s mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459517[/ATTACH]</p><p>FIRST emission though. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Probably my favourite portrait of CII though is on this tet:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459519[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My favourite reverse type is this ex [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] Neptune:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459518[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a good discussion of these denominations in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aurelian-as-upgrade.373773/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aurelian-as-upgrade.373773/">this old thread</a>.&nbsp; Here&#039;s my chart of laureate and radiate AE weights &amp; diameters from acsearch.&nbsp; I think it supports the idea that the CII and Aurelian laureate coins are sestertii which came in steadily reduced weights:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/screen-shot-2021-01-19-at-3-23-24-pm-jpg.1237980/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one&#039;s a rare special issue during this late &quot;sole reign&quot;(?) period from Serdica, with SEVERINA AVGVSTA fully spelled out:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459520[/ATTACH]</p><p>RIC temp #2828 (6 examples)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think this might be my favourite double strike ever!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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