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Hostilian, Summer - November 251 A.D., Viminacium, Moesia Superior
The caesar obverse legend with the date AN XIII on the reverse must be an engraver’s error or a hybrid, because Hostilian was already made Augustus in AN XII. Hostilian died in Viminacium in 251, the city and year where this coin was struck! After Herennius and Decius died in the Battle of Abrittus and became the first two emperors to be killed by a foreign army in battle. The armies in the Danube acclaimed Trebonianus Gallus emperor, but Rome acknowledged the rights of Decius' son, Hostilian. Trebonianus respected the will of Rome and adopted Hostilian. Later in 251, the Plague of Cyprian broke out in the Empire. Hostilian died in the epidemic at Viminacium. He was only 21 years old, the first emperor in 40 years to die of natural causes, one of only 13.
RP40092. Bronze AE 28, RPC Online IX 43 (7 specs), H-J Viminacium 75 (R8), AMNG I/I 158, Boric-Breskovic 1375, BMC Thrace p. 18, 36; SNG Budapest 495, Varbanov -, F, Viminacium (Stari Kostolac, Serbia) mint, weight 12.084g, maximum diameter 28.2mm, die axis 45o, as caesar, c. autumn - Nov 251 A.D.; obverse C VAL HOST M QVINTVS CAE, bare-headed cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse P M S COL VIM, Moesia standing facing, head left, extending hands over bull on left standing right and lion on right standing left, AN XIII (year 13 of the Viminacium colonial era) in exergue; rare; SOLD
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