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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4718118, member: 85693&quot;]Nice Mamaeas, RC. </p><p><br /></p><p>It so happens, the sestertius version of this issue was my very first sestertius (Dec. 2016) - it took me forever to attribute it because it is very worn and I had no idea what I was doing.&nbsp; Now I have a vague idea what I am doing:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1156613[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Julia Mamaea <b>Æ Sestertius </b></b></p><p><b><b>228-229 A.D.</b></b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA, diademed bust right. / VENVS VICTRIX, S-C, Venus standing left holding helmet &amp; sceptre, shield at her feet.&nbsp; RIC 705;</p><p>Cohen 78; BMC 718</p><p><br /></p><p>As for new stuff, I just so happen to be working on a couple of new ones along the same lines - her son Severus Alexander.&nbsp; These two sestertii just in:</p><p><br /></p><p>This one came in a lot of three sestertii off eBay:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1156593[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Severus Alexander Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(225 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint - 5th Emission</b></p><p>[IMP] CAES M AVR SEV ALEXANDER AVG, Laureate and draped bust right / FID[ES] MILI[TVM], Fides standing left, holding signum in each hand,</p><p>S C across fields.</p><p>RIC IV 552d; BMCRE 228.</p><p>(19.36 grams / 28 x 26 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>This monster (24.66 grams) came from a German eBay seller (shipping time to Midwest USA, about a month).&nbsp; Although my photo doesn&#039;t show it very well, I think this is a variation of RIC 548 (cuirassed bust, not just draped): </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1156594[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Severus Alexander Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(226 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint - 6th Emission</b></p><p>IMP CAES M AVR SEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate, draped (and cuirassed?) bust right / ANNONA AVGVSTI, Annona standing left, holding corn ears over modius &amp; cornucopiae, SC.</p><p>RIC 548 (var. obv bust type).</p><p>(24.66 grams / 31 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note:&nbsp; </b></p><p>This appears to have a cuirassed bust; as per this one: </p><p>Roma Numismatics Ltd&nbsp; E-Sale 70, 7 May 2020, lot 1226.</p><p>Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 42, 6 Jan. 2018, lot 747.</p><p>Description:&nbsp; &quot;...laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right... RIC 548 (var. obv bust type)&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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