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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2801065, member: 19463&quot;]No idea whatsoever.&nbsp; Possibly there were new workers or some change in techniques that came with the new administration.&nbsp; It is also interesting that the production of sestertii fell off greatly after the first couple years.&nbsp; There probably were many Commodus and earlier coins still circulating so the need was realized to be absent.&nbsp; While the coins are not rare, perfect ones don&#039;t show up often.&nbsp; Did someone get carried away here?&nbsp; I thought the estimate was plenty high but it was doubled.</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=132887" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=132887" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=132887</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]652998[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin is a very respectable specimen.&nbsp; This is a favorite type but hard to find really nice.&nbsp; The reverse legend begins DIVI M PII F commemoration the famous reverse adoption where Septimius claimed to be the son of the late Marcus Aurelius.&nbsp; I could not afford a full legend VF and feel lucky to have one with many clear letters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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