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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4577234, member: 85693&quot;]Congratulations, Donna - once I bought a sestertius for the first time, I became rather obsessed.&nbsp; Lots and lots of junky ones, but I can&#039;t seem to get enough.&nbsp; I think I need an intervention. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is very nice.&nbsp; I have a similar, not-so-nice one - and rather light weight.&nbsp; I have a half-baked, unsupported theory that these SAECVLARES issues run light, this based on looking at a few online.&nbsp; The theory being that since they were distributed during the big 1000th anniversary celebrations, everybody was too drunk to notice that the money was undersized:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1133311[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Philip I the Arab <b>Æ Sestertius</b></b></p><p><b>(248 A.D.) </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / SAECVLARES AVGG, SC&nbsp; in ex., Antelope walking left.</p><p>RIC 161a; Cohen 190.</p><p>(13.59 grams / 28 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s his son with an elk, or a goat, or some other mammal:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1133312[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Philip II&nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(248 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint </b></p><p><b>3rd Officina; 9th emission</b></p><p>IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / SAECVLARES AVGG, elk (or goat?) walking left, SC in exergue.</p><p>RIC 264a; Cohen 73.</p><p>(13.36 grams / 25 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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