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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7627743, member: 75937&quot;]I love the feel and heft of a well-used sestertius in hand! That coin is a testament to the prosperity of the second century. Think of all the transactions that coin made, the hands it passed through. It&#039;s mind-boggling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some well-circulated favorites in my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/antoninus-pius-temporvm-felicitas-sestertius-jpg.1021808/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 22.64 gm, 31.5 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 149.</p><p>Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XII, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder.</p><p>Rev: TEMPORVM FELICITAS, COS IIII in exergue, S C across field, crossed cornucopiae from which a grape bunch flanked by two grain ears hang, surmounted by confronted busts of two children.</p><p>Refs: RIC 857; BMCRE 1827-29; Cohen 813; RCV 4236; Strack 1026; Banti 411.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-avgvsta-vesta-standing-sestertius-jpg.939842/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina Senior, AD 138-141.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.57 g, 32.0 mm.</p><p>Rome, AD 145-147.</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: AVGVSTA S C, Vesta veiled, standing left, holding palladium and scepter.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1124; BMCRE 1519-20; Cohen 110 = 122 corr.; Strack 1294; RCV 4617.</p><p>Notes: Cohen 122 (Wiczay): &quot;Concordia? standing l., holding statuette and wand,&quot; (La Concorde? debout à gauche, tenant une statuette et une baguette) is almost certainly a badly described specimen of this type.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/marcus-aurelius-restitvtor-italiae-sestertius-jpg.1056053/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-180.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 21.36 g, 29.5 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 173.</p><p>Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXVII, head of Marcus Aurelius, laureate, right.</p><p>Rev: RESTITVTORI ITALIAE IMP VI COS III, Marcus Aurelius, in military dress, standing left, holding vertical spear in left hand and clasping right hands with Italia kneeling right before him, holding globe in left hand; SC in exergue.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1077; BMCRE 1449-1450; Cohen 538; RCV 4997; MIR 259.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-fecvnd-avgvstae-s-c-sestertius-2-jpg.1189955/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman oricalchum sestertius, 22.36 gm, 33.7 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Rome, December AD 160.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: FECVND AVGVSTAE S C, (Faustina as) Fecunditas standing left, between two children (thought to represent Faustina III and Lucilla), holding two infants in her arms (thought to represent Fadilla and Cornificia).</p><p>Refs: RIC 1635; BMCRE 902-904; Cohen 96; Strack 1336; RCV 5273; MIR 10.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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