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Trajan, 25 January 98 - 8 or 9 August 117 A.D.
"The 'Sestertius' (pl: sestertii), a contraction of the Latin 'SEMIS TERTIVS' which meant 2½, was originally a Roman Republican silver coin worth 1/4 of the denarius, or 2½ asses. In 38 BC Mark Antony changed it to a bronze worth four asses, since the denarius was re-valued to 16. Augustus issued it as an orichalcum coin of about 25 grams (dia: 35 mms), and it stayed that way until the early third century. It shrank to 20 grams and 25-30 mms in the reign of Severus Alexander (225-238). It was driven from circulation about 260 by the debased antoninianus, a small base billon coin valued at 8 sestertii." - from Moneta Historical Research by Tom SchroerRB88224. Orichalcum sestertius, Woytek 240q (same dies), BnF IV 512 (same dies), BMCRE III 771, Banti 117, Strack I 398, RIC II 478 var. (bust), Cohen 367 var. (same), VF, well centered, rough, extremely rare with this bust, struck with a superb obverse die!, Rome mint, weight 21.340g, maximum diameter 34.4mm, die axis 180o, c. 106 - 107 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate heroic bust left, full chest exposed, drapery on left shoulder; reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Ceres standing half left, head left, holding grain over modius in right hand, long scepter vertical in left hand, S - C (senatus consulto) divided across field; SOLD
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