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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clavdivs, post: 3323881, member: 93702&quot;]I purchased a sestertius this evening... the description refers to it as a &quot;orichalcum sestertius&quot; ... (I won&#039;t show the coin until I receive it).</p><p><br /></p><p>Wikipedia has the following line:</p><p><b>In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numismatics" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numismatics" rel="nofollow">numismatics</a>, orichalcum is the golden-colored bronze alloy used by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" rel="nofollow">Roman Empire</a> for their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestertius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestertius" rel="nofollow">sestertius</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupondius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupondius" rel="nofollow">dupondius</a> coins.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The other sestertius coins I have purchased have referred to them as brass.. </p><p>Just curious as to what this term really means...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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