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                        Lot: 424

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                        ROMAN EMPIRE: Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. AE double 
                        sestertius (47.58 gm).

                        ROMAN EMPIRE. Trajan Decius (AD 249-251). Orichalcum 
                        double sestertius (47.58 gm). Rome. IMP C M Q TRAIANVS 
                        DECIVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right, seen from 
                        front / VICTORIA AVG S C, Victory advancing left, 
                        holding wreath and palm. RIC 126a. Cohen 115 (50 Fr.). 
                        An unusually heavy specimen, about 25% overweight. Dark 
                        green-brown patina. Extremely fine/good very fine 

                        The average weight of Decius' double sestertii is about 
                        38 gm (Callu, Politique mon€taire, p. 131). Of fifty-one 
                        weights of such coins quoted from published catalogues 
                        by Bastien (Monnayage de bronze de Postume, p. 26, note 
                        67), only one is heavier than the present specimen 
                        (50.46 gm), and one about equal (47.48 gm). 
                        Estimated Value: $ 3,000 


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...Sold for $2,750 USD [ approx 2090 EUR, 1457.5 GBP ] plus 15% buyers fee. 

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 

Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) 
                      and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).