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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2594239, member: 75937&quot;]The only bronze Pudicitia standing coins of Salonina in RIC--joint or sole reign--are some Antoniniani and an As (RIC 51, sole reign). Asses of Salonina are quite reduced, weighing only about 6-7 grams, with Sestertii weighing 12-20 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=80783]@Julius Germanicus[/USER]&nbsp; -- how much does that coin weigh?</p><p><br /></p><p>Although 29 mm is not out of the question, Salonina and Gallinus Sestertii could be as little as 24 mm in diameter, like this one, RIC 42 joint reign, which weighs 15.24 gm (identifying it as a sestertius):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]565169[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The silver medallion with Pudicitia, RIC 24 joint reign, is 31 mm in diameter, but it depicts Pudicitia seated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that I am home and have access to RIC, I see that the Pudicitia Sestertii of Otacilia and of Herennia Etruscilla only portray Pudicitia seated as well--so my supposition that this is a smoothed and tooled Otacilia or Etruscilla has to be tossed out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only reference published for a very large AE with Pudicitia standing seems to be Gabl 490y, pl. 42, the plate coin of which was sold by Gemini in the acsearch.info link that Doug provided, and which had been previously sold by Credit Suisse.</p><p><br /></p><p>So we have a brass coin--as big as a silver medallion that is supposedly an obverse die match with a silver medallion used with a different reverse--with a previously undescribed reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>If genuine, Julius&#039;s coin would be the second example described and it is much more attractive than the first such coin described. It would be a very important finding, indeed.</p><p><br /></p><p>It needs to be authenticated by an authority in this area--David Sear or Curtis Clay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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