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Message:: [QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 7916058, member: 75525"]I bought 3 modest priced coins and a scale weight a few weeks ago. I really wanted the NB coin weight. Shipping and handling was 3 times the price of the weight, so I bid on a few other items to spread the shipping cost. One lot was misattributed to Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, Cr 479/1. The coin is worn enough to remove some of the Moneyer's name. I could see what I thought was "LAI", but could not find an As with those letters. I found it in one of my favorite RR bronze sale catalogs: A Collection of Roman Republican Struck Bronze Coinage, Auction 3 by Italo Vecchi. Turns out what I thought was "I" was "S". Part of the "B" is visible also. [ATTACH=full]1367762[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1367761[/ATTACH] Roman Republic, P. Cornelius P. f. Blasio Æ As. Rome, 170-158 BC.Obv - Laureate head of Janus, I aboveRev - Prow right , P.BLAS above, I before, ROMA below.21.7 grams, 30.2 mmF, dark brown patina, RCrawford 189/01, wt std 27 gBMCRR Rome 788, 789, 790 Syd 370Sear 703Vecchi #3 lots 343 & 344RBW 806Bab – Cornelia 6 My haul:[ATTACH]1367770[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1367771[/ATTACH] The weight I really wanted:[ATTACH]1367778[/ATTACH] Byzantine Coin Weight, 2 Solidi / Nomismata; Obv: NB in wreath, Rev: Blank; 9 grams, 19.2 mm diameter[/QUOTE]