Details
LOT 3663
Trajan Decius AR Antoninianus. AD 249-251. Antioch mint.
IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / VICTORIA AVG, Victory advancing to left, holding wreath and palm. RIC IV 29c var. (bust type); RSC 113a var. (same). Good Very Fine.(4.09gr, 22mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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