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Superb Detailed Portrait

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 728. Estimate $10000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. 
Sold For $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. AV Aureus (3.73 g, 6h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 4th emission, mid-late AD 250. IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / VBERITAS AVG, Uberitas standing left, holding purse in extended right hand, cradling cornucopia in left arm. RIC IV 28; Calicó 3299; Hunter 19; Cohen 104. Superb EF, lustrous, slight die shift on obverse. Sharp, high relief portrait.