Choice Double Sestertius

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 727. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. Æ Double Sestertius (31.80 g, 12h). Rome mint, 4th officina. 3rd emission, early-mid AD 250. IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front / FELICITAS SAECVLI, S C across field, Felicitas standing left, holding a long caduceus in right hand, cradling cornucopia in left arm. RIC IV 115; Pink IV, p. 17; Banti 9; Hunter -; Cohen 39. EF, dark olive-brown patina.