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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4203558, member: 85693"]Actually, if you have really, really low standards (like I do!) you can get a sestertius pretty cheap. I am unreasonably pleased with this yellow, ugly monster from Hadrian - part of a lot off eBay that worked out to less than 2 dollars each:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1077798[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse damage is interesting - horribly cratered, yet some of the legend/devices survive. Bronze disease rescue? Tooling? I don't know why anybody would bother. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1077799[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Hadrian Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(134-138 A.D.) </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint </b></p><p>[HA]DRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head right / FEL[ICITAS AVG] S C, Felicitas, draped, standing left, holding caduceus in right hand and cornucopiae in left</p><p>RIC 748d (see notes) </p><p>(25.81 grams / 30 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note: </b></p><p>This appears to be a non-draped head, but wear makes this not entirely certain. </p><p><br /></p><p>OCRE does not list this, though I found several auctions not draped; all use "RIC 748". Only one auction note RIC 748<b>d</b>. </p><p>Numsimatik Naumann Auction 65, lot 621 June 5, 2018[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4203558, member: 85693"]Actually, if you have really, really low standards (like I do!) you can get a sestertius pretty cheap. I am unreasonably pleased with this yellow, ugly monster from Hadrian - part of a lot off eBay that worked out to less than 2 dollars each: [ATTACH=full]1077798[/ATTACH] The reverse damage is interesting - horribly cratered, yet some of the legend/devices survive. Bronze disease rescue? Tooling? I don't know why anybody would bother. [ATTACH=full]1077799[/ATTACH] [B]Hadrian Æ Sestertius (134-138 A.D.) Rome Mint [/B] [HA]DRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head right / FEL[ICITAS AVG] S C, Felicitas, draped, standing left, holding caduceus in right hand and cornucopiae in left RIC 748d (see notes) (25.81 grams / 30 mm) [B]Attribution Note: [/B] This appears to be a non-draped head, but wear makes this not entirely certain. OCRE does not list this, though I found several auctions not draped; all use "RIC 748". Only one auction note RIC 748[B]d[/B]. Numsimatik Naumann Auction 65, lot 621 June 5, 2018[/QUOTE]
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