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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3514340, member: 84744&quot;]Thanks, Doug!&nbsp; So neither is particularly broad or heavy.&nbsp; I&#039;ll have to read up on medallions more.&nbsp; I&#039;ve read Toybee&#039;s short article (Numismatic Chronicle, 1944) but haven&#039;t gone through the book, which you can find <a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan8359" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan8359" rel="nofollow">here</a> in full.&nbsp; I see she classes examples like mine (dies for an as struck on a sestertius flan) as &quot;pseudo-medallions,&quot; and was aware of only 5 for Sev Alex.(!)&nbsp; Your examples are more ambiguous as to their status though they are certainly fine style and carefully engraved.&nbsp; I believe Toynbee has a separate category for those.&nbsp; &quot;Medallic coins&quot; are struck with obviously medallic obverse dies (high relief - maybe your new one fits here?), and then there are &quot;Borderline pieces&quot; of which she says &quot;After Antoninus Pius... the still smaller bronze medallions are, down to Gallienus, easily distinguishable on the whole from ordinary coins and afford few examples of border-line pieces.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Surely there is scholarship on these more recent than Toynbee, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a large-flan piece (15.27g, 29.0mm) I don&#039;t think is medallic - not special stylistically or in flan prep, the only thing out of the ordinary is its size and weight.&nbsp; Though as a Liberalitas issue I suppose it could be:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]932558[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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