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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8340963, member: 84744&quot;]I&#039;m glad you were able to snag one from this collection!&nbsp; Congrats on getting something close to best-of-type.&nbsp; I wonder why Wolkow was able to list so many but so few appear on acsearch etc?&nbsp; Perhaps many of the ones he lists are from a couple specific hoards?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I think your hypothesis about the identity of the figure is very plausible.&nbsp; I like these types that show the emperor raising up the &quot;little guy.&quot;&nbsp; The size differential really shows what the emperors thought of themselves.&nbsp; Primus inter pares no more! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a quickie cell phone photo of my latest Gallienus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479016[/ATTACH] </p><p>It&#039;s a sole reign sestertius that I spotted in a group lot.&nbsp; The rest of the lot consisted in very meh coins, but sole reign sestertii (near the denomination&#039;s end-of-life) are hard to come by.&nbsp; This is in decent shape for these.&nbsp; It&#039;s a bit better in-hand than the quickie photo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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