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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3660868, member: 85693&quot;]Interesting discussion.&nbsp; The late sestertii (and smaller AEs) are confusing to me.&nbsp; The weights seem to be all over the place starting around the time of Commodus.&nbsp; I have a Septimius Severus dupondius that is tiny compared to an Elagabalus as, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my only SAECVLARES sestertius - Philip with an antelope.&nbsp; At 13.59 grams it seems to barely qualify as a sestertius.&nbsp; Maybe it&#039;s not.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]984273[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Philip I the Arab</b></p><p><b>Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(248 A.D.) - Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / SAECVLARES AVGG, SC in ex., Antelope walking left.</p><p>RIC 161a; Cohen 190.</p><p>(13.59 grams / 28 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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