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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2491652, member: 19463&quot;]The double sestertii shown are nice but, more, typical in that nice coins are not always all that great on both sides.&nbsp; Finding coins that do not scream to be given separate grades like VF/G can be an issue.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Awwwww, you got my hopes up.&nbsp; I would love to see your single and double aurei but really wanted to see if you would show a dupondius and offer an opinion on how small they had to be before radiate bronzes stopped qualifying for the title &#039;double sestertius&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are several on vCoins now including one at 7.5g that I once owned but traded to Reid who sold it to....&nbsp; It is as nice as I have seen on the reverse but has this little problem that allowed me to let it go and has kept people from buying it for quite a while now.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t mind having it back but I&#039;m not paying five times what I payed the first time. </p><p><img src="https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/8/3/6/3tDYk8Ro5PjFqc2Ty6FfyXi4ax9WA7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As I understood it the agnomen Postumus was applied to boys who were born after the death of their father.&nbsp; However rules of the 1st century BC were not necessarily in place in Gaul 300 years later so I do not know if this applies here. The famous use of this was Agrippa Postumus:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa_Postumus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa_Postumus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa_Postumus</a></p><p>Note particularly his death conveniently came within hours of that of Augustus.&nbsp; He had been banished by Augustus for scandalous behavior but being by blood a grandson of Augustus was way too much to allow him to live.&nbsp; Right Tiberius?&nbsp; Sure, we all believe in coincidences![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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