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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 551738, member: 6370&quot;]I might not have been completely clear. I did not say people did not break a sestertius in half to get half the value in practice, in my original post I said:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;This appears to be simply a Sestertius that has been broken in half for whatever reason. Coins can break on their own or could be broken in half to half its value...&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am sure it probably happened...I am saying that the halved sestertius, IMO, would not be a dupondius as that is the name of a specific coin type with a specific denomination...I was saying that a sestertius broken in half would be a halved sestertius and although value changed through time, old denominations were discarded and new ones created or values changes and coins types with the same name wildly differ in the time line according to standards that change (for example a Sestertius during the republic was a small silver coin and did not become the big brass coins we love so much until the time of Augustus), a dupondius was a specific coin worth half a sestertius. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would call a coin like this a halved sestertius and NOT a dupondius like it is apparently called on the label. Regardless of what the coin was worth in asses, the dupondius was a coin that was worth half a sestertius, it was a specific coin with a specific worth. Much like a half dollar coin would be to a dollar coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>you will notic that in the link above...the seller calls the halved sestertius:&nbsp; Half of sestertius</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So my point was simply that a sestertius cut in half is not a dupondius...IMO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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