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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 8231351, member: 75937"]Very interesting coins, [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER], as always. You have a knack for tracking down unappreciated rarities and oddities. You have several I do not have in my own collection. The first one lacking in my numophylacium Faustinae is the very lightweight sestertius, RIC 1118. I only have the dupondius and, at 12.08 g, it weighs nearly as much as your sestertius. But sestertius it must be at 32 mm diameter without "boardwalk" margins. So, I think your struck on a dupondius flan theory is the only one that makes sense. Interesting, indeed. I only have the Ceres (though Beckmann argues -- convincingly, too, I think -- that it's Proserpina; see <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-%E2%80%93-ceres-or-proserpina.384875/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-%E2%80%93-ceres-or-proserpina.384875/">here</a>) with two torches bronze in the sestertius denomination. It's not often encountered in the middle bronze denomination, such as you have. Yours looks like a dupondius to me, by the color of the photo. I do not have the AETERNITAS/Ceres standing left, with right hand arranging drapery on shoulder and holding lighted torch in left hand sestertius. It's quite scarce indeed.[/QUOTE]