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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 4580478, member: 80783&quot;]Hey Donna,</p><p><br /></p><p>I started like you with my first Sestertius five years ago, promising myself to never spend more than 100 USD on a coin and limiting myself to one purchase a month.</p><p>This is what had happened by the end of that year <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1134418[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see I prefer my Sestertii with a golden Orichalcum tone. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my Marcus Aurelius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1134417[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG P M - bareheaded bust of Marcus Aurelius right, light drapery on left shoulder</p><p>CONCORD AVGVSTOR TR P XV COS III S C, Marcus Aurelius, on right, and Lucius Verus, on left, both togate, standing facing each other, clasping right hands and each holding roll in left</p><p>Sestertius, Rome mint, May-December 9, 161 AD (first emission of Marcus Aurelius)</p><p>32,85 mm / 23,65 gr</p><p>RIC 795; MIR 16-6/30; BMCRE, p. 519, 848; cf. Cohen 45; Sear 4962 var. (bareheaded and cuirassed bust), Banti 23 (10 specimens)</p><p>ex Stoecklin Collection</p><p><br /></p><p>Your Marcus Aurelius is listed in Banti (<i>I Grandi Bronzi Imperiali, Vol III-1</i>) as Nr. 262 (BMC 1449 note) with 5 specimens known to Banti in 1985. </p><p><br /></p><p>Banti lists 5 varieties of Marcus´Aurelius RESTITUTORI ITALIAE Sestertius with a total population of 30 specimens.</p><p><br /></p><p>The relative rarity of this reverse type is confirmed by the fact that only two specimens were included in the more than 300 Sestertii of Marcus found in the Guelma hoard in Algeria in 1957.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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