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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3092549, member: 85693&quot;]Thank you all for your help, and other examples. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/roman-collector.75937/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/roman-collector.75937/">Roman Collector</a> hit the nail on the head - my coin is a light-weight sestertius, for a dupondius/as die would be obviously &quot;small&quot; for the large planchet, revealing a lot of border beading.&nbsp; Mine fits the wide planchet very well, so it is probably a sestertius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore I will go with a &quot;skinny sestertius&quot; -</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Faustina I Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>Posthumous (147-161 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint - Æ Sestertius</b></p><p>DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust right, pearls in hair, with bun / AVGVSTA, Ceres standing facing, veiled head left, torch in right hand, stalks of grain downward in left, S C in field</p><p>RIC 1118; Cohen 88.</p><p>(13.70 grams / 32 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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