Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 976. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. AV Aureus (4.49 g, 12h). Rome mint. 4th emission, AD 250. IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / D-ACIA, Dacia standing left, holding in right hand a staff surmounted by ass’s head. RIC IV -; Calicó 3286 (this coin illustrated); Hunter -. EF, lustrous, weak strike in center of reverse. Rare, and the sole example with this obverse legend/reverse type combination.

Ex ‘Higly’ Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 24, 5 December 2002), lot 179; Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 996.