Dupondius
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The dupondius (Latin Alternative meanings: See Latin (disambiguation)
Latin (Lingua Latina)
Spoken Vatican City
Region Italic peninsula
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The dupondius (Latin two-pounder) was a bronze coin used during the Roman Empire and Roman Republic valued at 2 asses (1/2 of a sestertius or 1/8 of a denarius).
Dupondius COL NEM (as), coupé en deux - c. 10-14 AD.
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Nero Æ Dupondius. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, radiate head r. / S C, Roma, helmeted, in military dress, seated left on cuirass surrounded by arms; ROMA in ex.
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Fake Germanicus Dupondius
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This is a fairly fake of a Germanicus depondius of a style of forgery that suggest it was lost wax cast in the 19th century.
Dupondius
(lit. 'two-pounder'), A coin of the value of two asses, never actually of a full weight of two pounds.
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Dupondius
A medium-sized ancient Roman bronze or orichalcum coin. It's name means "two pounder" because the original dupondii actually weighed two Roman pounds of copper.
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Dupondius 77-78 AD
IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS VIII PP
FIDES PVBLICA SC
As 71 AD
IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS III
AEQVITAS AVGVSTI SC ...
dupondius with atypical positioning of the countermarks
"TIAV, PRO, IMP" on Sestertius of Claudius
"PRO" (countermark Martini Pangerl Collection 48), "IMP" (countermark Martini Pangerl Collection 47), "TIAV" (Martini Pangerl Collection 54) ...
AE Dupondius = 2 Asses (Brass or Orichalcum, 28mm)
AE As = Base Unit (Copper, 24-28mm)
AE Semis = 1/2 As (Brass or Orichalcum, 18mm) ...
Tiberius, AE Dupondius, Mint of Commagene, 21-22 A.D.
Obv: Laureate bust right. Rev: Crossed cornucopiae with caduces between.
reference - RIC I, 90; BMC Tib. 175 pl. 26.11.
273a---Æ Dupondius. Radiate head right/Annona standing left. RIC-993. VF $65
274 FAUSTINA, SR, Wife of Antoninus Pius. Æ Dupondius. Bust right/Juno stg leftsome encrustation. SR-1367, RIC-1155. VF $50 ...
69-96 (Domitian) Dupondius
Obverse Legend:
IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XII CENS PER P P ...
Lower denomination coins, including Asses and Quadrantes, were issued in pure copper, whereas the Sestertius and Dupondius were issued in orichalcum, the name given by numismatists to the alloy of copper and zinc.
This was struck in orichalcum (brass) as was its half, the dupondius. Another metal, copper, was used for the as (one-sixteenth denarius) and its quarter, the quadrans.
Cast copy of an dupondius, AE 25-24
radiate head of Pius right, ANTONINVS AVG - PIVS PP TRP COS IIII
/Securitas seated left, holding sceptre, left elbow on back of chair, S C in fields left and right
11.41 grams is full weight.
Tiberius had a dupondius struck for Agrippina with the personification IVSTITIA, or Justice (alluding to her search for it).
R1013a 2799 Trajan: AE 28 Dupondius
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Obv. IMP CAES TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P Rad. bust r.
Rev. SENATVS POPVLVSQUE ROMANVS S C Trajan's Column
12.86 g
Sear 1013a, RIC --; C. --; BMC p. 216 note.
The dupondius was worth half of a sestertius, and was usually made of "orichalcum," a mustard-yellow brass.
Domitian, AD81-96, AE Dupondius. Emperor's radiate head rt./Vexillum, crossed shields, trumpets and spears, Rome mint, AD 85, RIC 295. Centered, very slightly rough brown patina with orichalcum highlighting, nice clear portrait, rev.
Augustus replaced the rather muddy bronze coins of the late republic with a new series of coinages - some in brass, such as the sestertius and the dupondius, and some in bright copper, such as the as and the quadrans.
Roman Empire
Antoninianus; As; Aurelianus; Aureus; Denarius; Dupondius; Miliarensis; Sestertius; Siliqua; Solidus;
Romania
Alexander; Ban; Bancuta; Banu; Kreuzer; Leu; ...
The supply of Roman coins for circulation in Britain was at first far from adequate and this resulted in local copies of the official coinage being produced; the commonest of these is the copy of the dupondius of Claudius. In the second century A.D.
brass, a yellowish alloy of copper and zinc, used extensively during the Imperial period principally for the production of the sestertius and dupondius.
Palladium
an ancient sacred image of Athena (Minerva).
who at the same time conferred upon that body the privilege of coining in the baser metal. Then begins the Roman Imperial series, commonly called large, middle, and small brass (sester- tius, dupondius, and as), distinguished by the letters S. C.
The "small change" coins were copper Aes Graves, so big they would break your toe if you dropped one and they certainly wouldn't fit in your tunic. People readily adopted the smaller, base metal, token coinage of the As, dupondius and sestertius as ...
 See also: Coin, Sestertius, Caesar, Bust, Denarius
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