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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2828643, member: 72818&quot;]Wonderful posts!! There&#039;s just no other feeling like holding a &#039;big bronze&#039; in hand...</p><p><br /></p><p>These two were the first sestertii that I purchased when I returned to collecting during 2015---and still among my favorites:</p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan Decius, Orichalcum Sestertius, Rome mint, 249-251 AD; 14.89 grams, 31.0 mm</p><p>IMP C N Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG; laureate, cuirassed bust right.</p><p>PAX AVGVSTI; Pax standing, facing head left, raising olive branch in right, tranverse long scepter in left; S C flanking fields.</p><p>RIC IV 125a; Cohen V 93</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trajan-decius-sestertius-pax-reverse-jpg.460207/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian III, Orichalcum Sestertius, Rome mint, July 238 AD; 16.67 grams, 30.1 mm</p><p>IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG; laureate, cuirassed bust right.</p><p>AETERNITATI AVG, Sol standing slightly left, radiate, nude, chalmys over shoulder;</p><p>Raising hand, commanding the sun to rise.</p><p>RIC IV 297a, Cohen V 43</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/gordian-iii-sestertius-sol-reverse-jpg.460208/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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