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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4890996, member: 75937&quot;]It&#039;s almost Saturday night! </p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]zbRoEe0r1Xc[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>And that means it&#039;s a free-for-all! </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a new acquisition. The middle bronzes of Julia Mamaea appear less frequently than her sestertii and I&#039;m always on the look out for them. The flan crack on this one doesn&#039;t bother me and it&#039;s nicer than the <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-16332" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-16332" rel="nofollow">one in the British Museum</a>. The photo makes it look like orichalcum, but the metal is copper-colored in reality.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1180357[/ATTACH]</p><p>Julia Mamaea, AD 222-235.</p><p>Roman Æ as, 12.14 g, 26.7 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Rome, issue 6, AD 226.</p><p>Obv: IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA, bust of Julia Mamaea wearing stephane, draped, right.</p><p>Rev: VESTA S C, Vesta standing left, holding palladium on extended right hand and vertical scepter in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.sa.709" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.sa.709" rel="nofollow">709</a>; BMCRE <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-16332" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-16332" rel="nofollow">392</a>; Cohen 84; RCV 8250.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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