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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Trajan Decius| > RB93309
Trajan Decius, September 249 - June or July 251 A.D.
|Trajan| |Decius|, |Trajan| |Decius,| |September| |249| |-| |June| |or| |July| |251| |A.D.|, The Dacian Kingdom existed between 82 B.C. until the Trajan's conquest in 106 A.D. This coin commemorates Trajan Decius' recovery of Roman Dacia from rebelling Carpo-Dacians. The province was abandoned by Aurelian in 275, recovered again by Constantine the Great by 336, but abandoned again permanently soon after Constantine's death.
RB93309. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC IV 113(b) (R); Cohen V 28, SRCV III 9400, Hunter III - (p. xcvii), VF, superb portrait, flow lines, tight squared flan cutting off parts of legends, small edge cracks, obverse porous, Rome mint, weight 15.669g, maximum diameter 28.0mm, die axis 0o, 250 - 251 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES C MESS Q DECIO TRAI AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse DACIA, Dacia standing half left, wearing robe reaching feet, Roman standard in right hand, S - C (senatus consulto) divided across field; from the Errett Bishop Collection; rare; SOLD










OBVERSE| LEGENDS|

IMPCAESCMESSQDECIOTRAIAVG
IMPCAESCMESSTRAIQDECIOAVG
IMPCAESQTRAIANVSDECIVS
IMPCAETRADECAVG
IMPCAETRADECIVSAVG
IMPCDECIVSAVG
IMPCMQTRAIANVSDECIVSAVG
IMPTRAIANVSAVGDECIVS
IMPTRAIANVSDECIVSAVG

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Robinson, A. Roman Imperial Coins in the Hunter Coin Cabinet, University of Glasgow, Vol. III. Pertinax to Aemilian. (Oxford, 1977).
Seaby, H. & D. Sear. Roman Silver Coins, Volume IV, Gordian III to Postumus. (London, 1982).
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Vagi, D. Coinage and History of the Roman Empire. (Sidney, 1999).

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