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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 4364145, member: 87809&quot;]Hope you are all doing well. </p><p>Checking my attributions on this Octavius coin, acsearch says here it is a Dupondius <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3217993" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3217993" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3217993</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Wildwinds say it is a Sestertius:</p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s1570.html#cohen_0095" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s1570.html#cohen_0095" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s1570.html#cohen_0095</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and acsearch says here Sestertius or Dupondius:&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=242165" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=242165" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=242165</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My question is, how do you call it and why, is it really hard or impossible to tell if it is a Dupondius or a Sestertius? </p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciate very much your opinions and hope they will put me out of my misery of not knowing what this coin is<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; It has these same colors as in the pictures: the obverse is reddish-brown like orichalcum, the other side is dark</p><p><br /></p><p>Southern Italian mint, 38 BC</p><p>31 mm, 22.12 g</p><p>Crawford 535/2, Sydenham 1336;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: DIVI•F bare head of Octavian right with slight beard; eight-rayed star in right field below chin</p><p>Rev.: DIVOS IVLIVS in laurel wreath</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1103068[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1103070[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I know my pictures are terrible; good thing is that with this stay-home in place, my husband is taking pictures of the coins. Hope to have good pictures soon <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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