CNG 105, Lot: 944. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. AV Aureus (20mm, 4.80 g, 12h). Rome mint, 2nd officina. 4th emission, mid-late AD 250. IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / GENIVS EXERC ILLVRICIANI, Genius standing left, holding patera and cornucopia; signum to right. RIC IV 16a; Calicó 3290 (same rev. die as illustration); Hunter 9; Biaggi 1394 var. (obv. legend). Good VF, lightly smoothed. Rare.