298, Lot: 349. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Herennius Etruscus. As Caesar, AD 249-251. Æ As (25mm, 10.17 g, 12h). Rome mint. 3rd emission of Trajan Decius, early-mid AD 250. Q HER ETR MES DECIVS AVG, bareheaded and draped bust right / Mercury standing left, holding purse and caduceus. RIC II 167b (Decius). VF, green surfaces, end of legend tooled from “NOB C” to “AVG”. Rare.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.