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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 5411219, member: 96898"]That's a splendid example! I can't remember ever seeing a sestertius of this type with better face detail on Mercury – and I have looked through the auction archives quite extensively before purchasing my modest antoninianus featuring the same reverse:[ATTACH=full]1234411[/ATTACH] Herennius Etruscus, Roman Empire, AR antoninianus, 251 AD, Rome mint. Obv: bust of Herennius Etruscus, radiate, draped, r. Rev: PIETAS AVGG; Mercury, nude except for cloak on shoulders, standing l., holding purse and caduceus. 20mm, 3.17g. Ref: RIC IV Trajan Decius 142. Ex JB collection; ex AMCC 2, lot 201. And in addition, here is a Republican Mercury:[ATTACH=full]1234412[/ATTACH] Roman Republic, anonymous issue, AE semuncia (post-semilibral standard), 215–212 BC, Rome mint. Obv: head of Mercury r. Rev: prow r.; above, ROMA. 20mm, 6.97g. Ref: RRC 41/11.[/QUOTE]