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Lot
# 584 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$650
/ Price Realized: US$550
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Trajan Decius. Sestertius
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Trajan Decius. 249-251 AD. Sestertius, 25.08gg. (1h). Rome. Obv: IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG Bust laureate, cuirassed right. Rx: VICT - ORIA AV - G S - C Victory advancing left holding wreath and palm. On an usually broad and heavy, but irregularly shaped, flan. RIC 126d (S). Cohen 117 (5 Fr.). VF.
From the Bill Behnen Collection of coins of Decius and family. Ex Classical Cash IV, 30 August 1997, lot 819. With a paper rubbing of the coin made about thirty years earlier, explained as follows: "This coin was offered to me in NYC sometime in the late '60s. Couldn't afford but weighed it and made the attached paper rubbing".
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