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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4179862, member: 89514&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a good chance that your Septimius RESTITVTOR VRBIS As was struck for distribution as a New Year&#039;s present on 1 Jan. 200 or 201.</p><p><br /></p><p>The imperial titles on Antonine medallions show that virtually all bronze medallions were struck at the very beginning of each tribunician year, but dated ahead to record the emperor&#039;s new consulship of 1 Jan. whenever he was accorded that honor, so apparently intended to be distributed as New Year&#039;s gifts. We know that coins, particularly asses, were a traditional Roman New Year&#039;s gift.</p><p><br /></p><p>The RESTITVTOR VRBIS type occurs on a unique bronze medallion, Toynbee pl. XVII.7. Very probably a New Year&#039;s gift, since virtually all Roman bronze medallions were apparently struck for that occasion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Asses were the second denomination regularly produced each year for distribution as New Year&#039;s gifts alongside the bronze medallions. Sometimes these New Year&#039;s asses were made fancier than ordinary asses by more elaborate types, finer style, or special flans, e.g. oversize or bimetallic. Your RESTITVTOR VRBIS type was made fancier by the addition of Roma seated to the standard Emperor sacrificing type. A specimen of this As in the Hunt Collection was struck on a broad flan weighing 17.29g (Sotheby NY, 21 Jan. 1990, lot 763).</p><p><br /></p><p>What does your specimen weigh? Would you be able to send me a plaster cast of it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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