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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2910844, member: 80804&quot;]&quot;Hen to co-Hen, Hen to co-Hen...&quot; old joke, couldn&#039;t resist. That reverse type was used on coins in at least 3 different denominations of which I&#039;m aware. Since there is an &quot;SC&quot; in the exergue, that rules out the billon antoninianus. However, this appears as though it could be either an as or a sestertius.</p><p>This is of somewhat unique importance to me - it&#039;s the same type as one of the very first ancient coins I was got as a Christmas present in 1957, and started the journey, as they say:</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album100/ML_22_Gord_III_Apollo_as_ed.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>With all the other things which have passed through my hands during the last 60 years, this (and the others in that original group of coins) I have somehow been able to hold on to through all the changes. This one is an as ( <a href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album100/ML_22_Gord_III_Apollo_as_ed?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album100/ML_22_Gord_III_Apollo_as_ed?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album100/ML_22_Gord_III_Apollo_as_ed?full=1</a> ) and as I look at it, I suspect yours is a sestertius (= 4 asses / 1/4 denarius) - a larger denomination but one which often shared common reverse types with other denominations minted during the same period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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