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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4581658, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks for the information. Although I don&#039;t think the Marcus Aurelius-Italia sestertii could really be <u>that</u> rare, even just considering the three shown on this thread now owned by Coin Talk members -- mine, [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]&#039;s, and [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]&#039;s -- plus the five currently for sale on VCoins (including the two I showed here, along with three others in considerably lesser condition), plus one more on MA-Shops.&nbsp; Admittedly, OCRE shows a total of only 7 examples of the six different types of this coin listed in RIC as held by the institutions they include, and the CNG Archives list only 5 sold over the last 15 years or so.&nbsp; On the other hand, the free version of Coin Archives shows 5 sold at auction in the last six months, and ACSearch lists 36 examples sold at auction since 2001 (minus any overlap for coins sold more than once; I didn&#039;t try to check for duplicates).&nbsp; I don&#039;t know exactly how to judge these numbers, or, for comparison purposes, how many examples of a common coin one would expect to have been sold at auction over the last 20 years and listed on acsearch.&nbsp; In any event, I would certainly agree that these coins are not very common, but they don&#039;t seem to be incredibly rare.&nbsp; Whatever they are, I&#039;m very happy to have bought one, and hope it arrives soon!</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, out of all the ones I looked at, only a few have completely readable reverse legends. I&#039;m not sure why that is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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