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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8292043, member: 26430&quot;]There does seem to be a noticeable range of sizes for the various AE Asses, at least from example to example (haven&#039;t checked on issue to issue). I&#039;ve seen some examples under 5g. Occasionally you see these types described as &quot;Semis,&quot; but I assume those should be As. The confusion is probably helped by the fact that they came with both laureate and radiate obverses, and radiate could signal a &quot;half&quot; denomination as well as a &quot;double,&quot; though apparently not very consistently during Nero&#039;s reign. </p><p><br /></p><p>(I had understood that radiate heads started to symbolize Dupondius under Tiberius. If so, Nero is an interesting departure. My hypothesis would be that Nero liked the radiate crown so much that he couldn&#039;t be limited by convention. From what I&#039;ve read, Nero liked having himself portrayed radiate on statues, etc., often as Helios or the other sun god Apollo, though according to Wikipedia it was only under Vespasian that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Nero" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Nero" rel="nofollow">Colossus of Nero</a> was given its radiate crown.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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