Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1554. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN DECIUS. 249-251 AD. Æ Sestertius (20.46 g, 7h). IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / P-A-NNONIA-E, S C across field, the two Pannoniae standing facing, looking away from each other; the right one cradles a legionary signa in left arm; another signa to left. RIC IV 124a; Banti 22; Hunter 54; Cohen 87. Good VF, hard green patina with patches of blue-green and brown. ($750)

Ex Boyd Collection (Baldwin's, 26 September 2005), lot 600 (part of), with his original ticket (numbered 104); purchased from E.T. Seltman, April 1898.