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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4699505, member: 84744"]I think this small medallion of Severus Alexander was a New Years issue.  It's not listed in RIC as TR P III, but the BM has one.  (Acquired from you, [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER], I believe!)[ATTACH=full]1154521[/ATTACH] Here are my notes on this coin: <blockquote>The large, carefully prepared flan and well centred strike indicates that this is a medallic as, possibly produced upon SA’s assumption of his third tribunician power, and given by the emperor to those present at the ceremony. Toynbee: “In the second quarter of the third century miniature bronze medallions of dupondius and as dimensions were particularly in vogue, some pieces bearing the formula S C on the reverse, but inseparable, on grounds of style and content, from those without it…”  She also notes the striking of dupondius and as types on sestertius flans (p. 35) under the heading of “pseudo-medallions” (though she considers them to belong to the medallic category in the purposes for which they were made).  These were more common in the first and second centuries; Toynbee was aware of only 5 examples of Severus Alexander. There is some evidence on the edge that this medallion may have been enclosed in a rim (as was often the case with pseudo-medallions.) </blockquote>And here is a smaller medallic as without the SC, special emission for his 3rd Liberalitas, 226, RIC IV 455:[ATTACH=full]1154522[/ATTACH] from the collection of the Marquis de Albrecht Hohenkubin (von Kubinzky)(1885-1972)[/QUOTE]

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