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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3316047, member: 51347&quot;]Beautiful Quinarius [USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER] ! Very nice. Great EVERYTHING about this coin.&nbsp; I am very curious about the dot also.&nbsp; Perhaps a whim / embellishment? Dropped the tool, and cleaned it up with a nice dot? Or a code (&quot;Hey, I made this! This is MY die&quot;)?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>How about a <b>Sestertius</b> from this time?&nbsp; Everyone seems to think Sestertii were Orichalcum...&nbsp; However, for 200 years they were Silver, AND represented 2-1/2 Asses prior to the 141 retarrif of the Denarius to 16 Asses...&nbsp; <b>IIS on the Sestertius means Two-Asses-and-a-Semis.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]878788[/ATTACH]</p><p>RR <b>AR Sestertius</b> After 211 BCE <b>12mm 1.0g</b> Rome mint Roma r <b>IIS</b> - Dioscuri riding, stars in ex ROMA Sear 46 Craw 44-7 RSC 4[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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