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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 25878490, member: 91820&quot;]And of course I forgot to respond -I owned an example, foolishly sold, and saw another one for sale in much better condition.&nbsp; These are quite rare - so rare that one of them if part of the beautiiful examples from the Curtis Clay collection that is being auction off in two months - I am feverishly begging, borrowing and what not for this sale. </p><p><br /></p><p>So your is one, the one sold, the one I saw and the Curtis Clay example is all of four.&nbsp; If you look in RIC most of the VIII coins are rare - the Rome mint was gearing up for ceasing to strike all but a few bronze coins.&nbsp; As for your specific questions - it is 1:40 pm as I write this and I have to go to work tomorrow so it will have to be supplemented later - but this is a fantastic find in my opinion.&nbsp; The sestertii of Septimius seem to have maybe alot very common types - the 3 Moneta, Africa, VIIII soldier leading horse and many many rarites.&nbsp; But &quot;common&quot; is a relative terms ACSEARCH has all of 50 or so examples sold since 1999 - not exactly common.&nbsp; And what is common one day can disappear the next and something else become common - Caracalla sestertii with Securitas reverse for example - for the last few years these are all over the place.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Same with Cleopatra bronzes - I saw one go for less than $200 recently - no great condition but it would have sold for four times that five years ago. Why so many? No clue.&nbsp; Maybe some digger will find a a hoard of four thousand Titus sestertii with the Colosseum on the reverse.&nbsp; But then again we wouldn&#039;t know because these would be slowly sold over time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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