Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1700. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $3800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HERENNIA ETRUSCILLA, wife of Trajan Decius. Augusta, 249-253(?) AD. Æ Double Sestertius (44.08 gm). Diademed and draped bust right, set on crescent / Pudicitia seated left, holding transverse sceptre and drawing drapery from shoulder. RIC IV 136a (Decius); Cohen 21. Good VF, dark brown patina with patches of red, rough surfaces, some smoothing. Very rare. ($3000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 50 (23 June 1993), lot 309; Henry Platt Hall Collection (Glendining's, 16-21 November 1950), lot 1902; Baur-Borel Collection.