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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8250009, member: 85693&quot;]Nice coins, [USER=112342]@JayAg47[/USER] - well worth the wait.&nbsp; That Hadrian type is really interesting - I have a beater of the type:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453230[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As it so happens, I just got my first Aelius denarius too - worn, but I could afford it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453231[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Aelius (Caesar)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Denarius</b></p><p><b>(137 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[L A]ELIVS CAESAR, bare head right / TR P[OT C]OS II, [C]ONCORD in exergue,</p><p>Concordia seated left holding patera, resting arm on cornucopiae.</p><p>RIC II, 3 Hadrian 2625; </p><p>(old RIC II, Hadrian 436a).</p><p>(2.73 grams / 17 x 15 mm)</p><p>eBay Feb. 2022 Cks</p><p><br /></p><p>As for foreign shipments, this sestertius of Commodus is kind of awful, but I really liked the portrait, and because of the somewhat unusual reverse type, I was able to identify it, despite the loss of its legends.&nbsp; And it&#039;s green.&nbsp; Do you want to hear my other excuses?&nbsp; I like the portrait.&nbsp; And it was cheap.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, it shipped from Hungary - Feb. 14 to March 1st, when it arrived in my local Post Office.&nbsp; However, the local PO sent it on to another town within the state!&nbsp; After that, from March 1 to the 5th it made it back to me, after some time in the missent pile.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453229[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Commodus&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(190 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[M COMMOD ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT P P], laureate head right / [GEN AVG FELIC TR P XV IMP VIII COS VI] S C, Genius standing left, holding patera &amp; cornucopiae, altar at left.</p><p>RIC III 561; BMCRE 645.</p><p>(16.20 grams / 25 x 24 mm)</p><p>eBay Feb. 2022 (Hungary) </p><p><b>Notes:</b>&nbsp; Despite obliterated legends, this attribution seems to be the only possible one for the reverse type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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