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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4581145, member: 89514&quot;]Looks like both Faustinas might even be from the same obv. die?</p><p><br /></p><p>Does the metal show through anywhere on either specimen? If so red = As, yellow = dupondius. Best to always compare with an unpatinated sestertius or middle bronze whose metal is clear, however, to avoid seeing the same coin twice and calling it once a red As and the second time a yellow dupondius, as has happened to me!</p><p><br /></p><p>Metal color is the surest criterion. Fabric can also help, for example long flan cracks suggest a dupondius, the harder of the two metals, whereas numerous small edge irregularities suggest an As.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weight hardly matters, since there is great overlap between the weights of the lightest dupondii and the heaviest asses. Die axis makes no difference, as far as I am aware. Dupondii and asses often shared rev. types from about Hadrian on, as we can tell from the coins of the emperors themselves, whose asses are usually laureate while their dupondii are radiate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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