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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3155800, member: 85693&quot;]Thank you all for the help. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I thought the reverse type was Mars initially, before I posted on Coin Talk.&nbsp; Indeed, as Ken suggests, Marcus Aurelius sestertii types featuring Mars are abundant – an OCRE search (time elapsed:&nbsp; about 30 seconds) has 28 different (RIC) hits.&nbsp; Most of them show Mars nude, walking with a trophy.&nbsp; Seven showed Mars standing the way my coin shows – fully armored, resting hand on shield – but these have the wrong obverse legend (RIC 861, 862 and 863, 888, 889, 898 and 899, all with ARMENIACVS).&nbsp; In fact almost all Mars reverse types have the ARMENIACVS obverse legend.&nbsp; Interesting?&nbsp; I think so - an Armenian wars tie-in, probably. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not Mars, so who is it?&nbsp; I’ve encountered Virtus on other coins in my collections (and thank you Doug for the other examples).&nbsp; This led me to look at Virtus as the reverse type (time elapsed:&nbsp; about 10 seconds, since I was already on the OCRE page).&nbsp; There are only three sestertii with Virtus reverse for Marcus Aurelius.&nbsp; Virtus is sitting in 2 out of the 3.&nbsp; The only one standing is RIC 1069 with a full match to the obverse inscription on mine (thus my attribution).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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