Special Emission - RIC Plate Coin

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 333. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. AR Antoninianus (3.33 g, 12h). Rome mint. Special emission, mid AD 251. IMP CAE TRA DECIVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / VIC TORIA GERMANICA, Decius on horseback riding left, raising right hand and holding scepter in left; to left, Victory advancing left, holding wreath in right hand and palm in left. RIC IV 43 corr. (obv. legend) and pl. 10, 20 (this coin illustrated); RSC 122. Good VF, toned. Rare.

From the White Mountain Collection. Ex Sternberg XV (11 April 1985), lot 530.