Sestertius
Sestertius (quasi sesquitertius), the sesterce, a coin in value two asses and a half.
The sestertius was the unit of accounting in Roman economics. Payment might be made in silver denarii or even in gold, but the account would be tallied in sestertii. Nominally, a sestertius was a fourth of a denarius.
Hadrian AE Sestertius. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head right / S-C, SPQR in exergue, 11-column temple on five steps flanked by columns surmounted by statues. Cohen 1422v, Strack 695v, Cayon 717Av.
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Fake Balbinus Sestertius
Enlargement
This is a modern sand cast fake of a Balbinus sestertius.
Trajan Decius AE Sestertius. IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, laureate cuirassed bust right / LIBERALITAS AVG, SC in ex, Decius seated left on curule chair set on a low platform, right hand extended, officer standing left behind him, ...
Sestertius of Trajan
A second version of the coin above. This is a different carving done as a commission.
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sestertius: An ancient Roman coin; plural: sestertii.
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Sestertius
An ancient Roman large brass coin, worth a quarter of a denarius. It's name means "two-and-a-halfer", because it was originally worth two and a half asses. These large coins are attractive examples of Roman numismatic art.
sestertius - a Roman denomination made of orichalcum (q.v.), worth one-fourth of a denarius (q.v.).
Sestertius of Caracalla as Caesar
As the old saying goes, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." To most coin collectors, condition is everything.
Sestertius of Hadrian, dupondius of Antoninus Pius, and as of Marcus Aurelius
See also: Roman currency.
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sestertius, dupondius, as
sestertius of Hadrian
Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus (January 24, 76 - July 10, 138), known as Hadrian in English, was a Roman emperor from 117 - 138. He is considered one of the so-called Five Good Emperors.
AE Sestertius = 4 Asses (Brass or Orichalcum, 25-35mm)
AE Dupondius = 2 Asses (Brass or Orichalcum, 28mm)
AE As = Base Unit (Copper, 24-28mm) ...
"AVC" on Sestertius and below dupondius of Augustus, Pannonia (countermark Martini Pangerl Collection 75)
"AVC, AVC" imitation
"AVC" on Moneyer As (so called Carnuntum type) ...
12 new coins, sestertiusis of the Bosporos king Sauromates I (93-123 AD), are published. Such coins are the most interesting as to the new scientific information, to the author's opinion: ...
*261 ---Æ Sestertius of Thrace! Bust r/IVD CAP SC, palm tree, to l. mourning Jewessto right male Jew. Rare Judaea Capta from a Balkan mint.. RPC-503. F-VF $2500 [image] ...
* Emperor Vespasian Sestertius (the basic Roman unit of money), 1 July 69 - 24 June 79 A.D., often sold for $390
* Silver denarius (another basic Roman coin) created in honor of Centurion Annius, 82-81 B.
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.
84 (Nero) Sestertius of Caludius #12 should be labeled as Claudius #12 (sp). On p. 85 (Nero, #9) The photo labeled as #9 should be labeled #9c. On p. 86 (Nero, #17) The photo has obverse legend NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM PM TR P IMP PP.
2 R Imitations, 293 G, 32 Elymais, 166 Parthian, 158 Sasanian, 48 Baktria, 51 central Asia, 165 RP, 34 RR, 433 RI, 61 Byz, 5 DA, 10 Arabic, 7 sestertius fakes
Parthian (166), Sasanian (158)
133 (11 Oct. 2004) "High Value Ancient Coins" HV. HQP.
The first issue of denarii was accompanied by two fractional denominations - its half, the quinarius, and its quarter, the sestertius.
While many denominations were used, accounting was done primarily using the sestertius through late in the third century AD.
Caracalla, AD198-217, AE Sestertius. Emperor head rt./PM TRP XVI COS IIII PP, Mars stands left holding Victory, captive at feet, RIC 496c. Centered, clear portrait and rev., SCARCE, about Very Fine-Very Fine....$575 Photo ...
Other collectors stick strictly with the large, impressive sestertius of each emperor. Still others simply collect ANY coin denomination, as long as they can obtain one coin of each and every emperor.
" Nummus had been used to mean the sestertius, which may be the origin of Bury's identification.
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.
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).
the year of his murder, that he received permission from the Senate to place his portrait on the coinage. The aureus, denarius and sestertius were also struck by Caesar together with the copper `as', the latter bearing the bust of Victory.
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 ...
These coins differ in fabric and size from the rest, and the Latin letters perhaps indicate that coins of this large size were the only ones recognized by the Roman government as legal tender in exchange for the Sestertius of about the same size as ...
 See also: Coin, Ancient, Reverse, Revers, Denarius
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