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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1578854, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;d call it an as.&nbsp; I have a 12g as of a different type.&nbsp;&nbsp; To make things worse there are branch mint asses struck from yellow orichalcum which weigh only about 7g which have radiate crowns.&nbsp; The theory here is that the crown doubles the value of the half size coin but in fact I consider it inappropriate to call these Roman rather than provincials.&nbsp; Rome Trajan tend to follow the radiate dupondius rule.&nbsp; A normal as should be reddish copper while a normal dupondius should be yellow brass.&nbsp; This distinction fails a century later.&nbsp; There are yellow dupondii of Vespasian with laureate portraits.&nbsp; I&#039;m not familiar with Trajan laureate dupondii.&nbsp; Can you show one?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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