298, Lot: 338. Estimate $100. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 22.44 g, 12h). Rome mint. 2nd emission, late AD 249. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / GENIVS EXERCITVS ILLVRICANI, Genius standing left, holding patera and cornucopia; signum to right. RIC IV 119a; Banti 15. Good VF, green patina with breaks in areas on the obverse, light roughness.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.