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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3951631, member: 87200&quot;]I tend to like the larger flans, both sestertii and provincials issued by a number of towns. They often have very interesting and mythological reverse types. Of the late empire I prefer AE2s or AE1s. Here is an example of a Phillip the Arab piece which is the size of a sestertius, but has a super cool temple on the reverse, along with a glade of trees. </p><p><br /></p><p>COMMAGENE, Zeugma.</p><p>Philip I and II. 247-249 AD.</p><p>Æ31, 19.2g; 6h (a nice chunky coin, how about that?)</p><p>Obv.: AYTOK K M IOYΛI ФIΛIΠΠOC CЄB; Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev.: ZЄYGM-ATЄΩN; Peribolos containing grove of trees, seen in perspective; tetrastyle temple in distance, draped figure within (Zeus?); in exergue, capricorn to right.</p><p>Reference: Butcher 31c; BMC 35.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1041177[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1041178[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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