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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 5185603, member: 84744&quot;]Yes, maybe so - but I&#039;m pretty sure the listings only mention 161 because that&#039;s when Marcus Aurelius inherited the throne, it doesn&#039;t indicate the time of issue for that particular coin.&nbsp; Do you have another reason to put it before 164?</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that Faustina also issued the type in bronze.&nbsp; At some point, CNG listed the issue date as 161-164, but I don&#039;t know if that was based on anything more than a&nbsp; hunch: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=34059" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=34059" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=34059</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think we need [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] to enlighten us!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s no way a 7.26g AE from this late would be a semis... if you click through to the BM site you&#039;ll see they&#039;ve (very tentatively) suggested it might be a dupondius.&nbsp; Denominations are pretty tough at this point, but here&#039;s a post-reform &quot;denarius&quot; with zero silver.&nbsp; It weighs just 1.42g.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1213455[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, Ocat&#039;s phrasing &quot;it will hardly be produced anymore except by the Emperor ...?&quot; means the answer should be the last emperor to issue the semis <i>in any sort of volume</i>.&nbsp; Definitely Decius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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