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This coin is a good example of the challenges in deciding what to pay or how to price an ancient coin There would have been a financial incentive to double the value of a worn sestertius with a fresh strike

So what does this all have to do with ancient coin?

The middle/top coin has a very "Severus Alexander" transitional portrait.

Venus holds an apple on these ancient coins, a reference to the myth of the golden apple that started

Stuckey, A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East  (n.p.: Open Source, 2023).

The subject matter of ancient coins was used for promoting the moneyer and the moneyer's family to support arrival from Troy see this related post (and another coin featuring the Dei Penates): New Beginnings & Ancient

In ancient Rome an Augur would be consulted before any major undertaking.

Ancient coins don't all come in MS-70 (perfect mint state, with no flaws, scratches, or wear visible

-Cicero, in a speech given upon his return from exile in 57 BCE, paragraph 10 Although Publius Lentulus

Perhaps by Aqā Rizā Haravi, c.1605-10, in the British Museum .

Some of the most used reference books for ancient coins are not new.

the Argives to cower and fawn upon the wolf-leader of Galadra, and to hand over the sceptre of the ancient