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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Trajan Decius| > RS69165
Trajan Decius, September 249 - June or July 251 A.D.
|Trajan| |Decius|, |Trajan| |Decius,| |September| |249| |-| |June| |or| |July| |251| |A.D.|, In Roman religion, every man has a genius, a presiding spirit. In De Die Natali, Censorinus says, from the moment we are born, we live under the guard and tutelage of Genius. Cities, organizations, and peoples also had a genius. On coins, we find inscriptions to the Genius of the Roman people, of the Senate, of the Emperor, etc. The legend GENIVS EXERC ILLVRICIANI dedicates this coin to the Genius of the army in Illyria (western Balkans).

Genius' image is of a man with a cloak half covering the shoulders leaving the rest of his body naked, holding a cornucopia in one hand, and a simpulum or a patera in the other.
RS69165. Silver antoninianus, RIC IV 16(c), RSC IV 49, Hunter III 11, SRCV III 9374, VF, Rome mint, weight 3.802g, maximum diameter 21.3mm, die axis 180o, 249 - 251 A.D.; obverse IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse GENIVS EXERC ILLVRICIANI, Genius standing left, nude but for cloak over shoulder, patera in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, standard right; SOLD











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