No.212.  Provincia Dacia.   Volusian.  Æ 26 (Sestertius).  A.D. 251.  

Obv: IMP C C VIB VOLVSIANVS AVG. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. 
Rev: PROVINCIA DACIA,  AN V in ex. Dacia standing left, holding branch in 
 right hand, and scepter in left hand. To right of Dacia lion advancing left, 
 to left of Dacia eagle with head turned right.  

Ref: Sear 4360; BMC -; Moushmov 18.
Grade: good Fine, green patina.  
Die Axis:  180°.  Weight:  12.14 g. 

About coins dated year five, Stevenson (1889; 1982:663) notes “there is also 
a medallion of extreme rarity, struck under Volusianus  [...], which bears 
for legend PROVINCIA DACIA AN. V. as the fifth year of this Dacian æra”. 


Contributed by Henrik Agndal, May, 2003.