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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4938979, member: 19463&quot;]Veneres.</p><p><a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/venus#:~:text=late%20Old%20English%2C%20from%20Latin,to%20desire%2C%20strive%20for.%22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/venus#:~:text=late%20Old%20English%2C%20from%20Latin,to%20desire%2C%20strive%20for.%22" rel="nofollow">https://www.etymonline.com/word/venus#:~:text=late Old English, from Latin,to desire, strive for.&quot;</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have two sestertii but neither is high end.&nbsp; My &#039;better&#039; one has a scrape on the face revealing an orichalcum cheek and there are two deep scratches on the reverse.&nbsp; The worst fault is that, like 99% of these I have seen, the reverse is flatly struck.&nbsp; It is full legend which is special.&nbsp; Stacks, 1989 (for within $5 of the next coin)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1187049[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I like the second one a bit better even though it only wins over the first in one category.&nbsp; This one has better die style.&nbsp; Of these that I have seen, this is my favorite portrait die.&nbsp; I would love to have one from these dies as good overall as my other one.&nbsp; I doubt I will ever sell it.&nbsp; Pegasi, 1988</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1187030[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The third coin is an as and not bad for these except for the flat bottom.&nbsp; It was ex. NFA in 1990 and will not be upgraded unless I miss my guess.&nbsp; It was half again the price of either of the two sestertii but asses (the plurals of the coin and the animal are spelled the same even though the coin shares the singular spelling with the adverb, conjunction, preposition and interjection) are more scarce.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1187031[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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