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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3875738, member: 75937&quot;]It can be difficult to distinguish between asses and dupondii on coins of empresses before crescents were used to distinguish between the as and the dupondius on coins of Julia Mamaea.</p><p><br /></p><p>In general, asses weigh less than dupondii, but there&#039;s a lot of overlap. Antonine asses weigh about 11 g or a bit less and dupondii about 12.5 g or a bit more (BMCRE4, p. xv). However, any individual coin could weigh 1.5 g or so more or less than these averages. It&#039;s hard to say with a 12.37 g coin without some other indication of denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best indication is color of any bare metal that shows through. Your Faustina II coin is a dupondius -- on the basis of the brassy color and the &gt; 12 g weight. It just has a dumpy flan. Moreover, the British Museum specimen is probably a dupondius. Read the footnote to BMCRE 982. It weighs 12.26 g:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023831[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In bronze, I only have the sestertius version of the coin. I have apparently never posted this on CT before:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023836[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 23.36 g, 30.0 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 161-175.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bust, right, with two strands of pearls.</p><p>Rev: HILARITAS S C, Hilaritas standing facing, head left, holding long palm and cornucopiae.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1642; BMCRE 911-13; Cohen 112; RCV 5275.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that lifetime AE II of Faustina I -- AWESOME![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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