298, Lot: 343. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. Æ As (26mm, 10.82 g, 12h). Rome mint. 2nd-3rd emissions, late AD 249-mid 250. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Dacia standing left, holding staff surmounted by head of an ass. RIC IV 112d. VF, dark brown patina with some green highlights, fields smoothed.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.