Trajan Decius. AE 29; Trajan Decius; 249-251 AD, Samos, Ionia, AE 29, 12.56g. RPC-675 (8 spec.), pl. 43 (same dies). Obv: AVT K TPAIA - NOC ?EKIOC Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed r. Rx: CAM - ION Nymph advancing r., naked but for peplos round legs, one end of which she seems to hold out before her with both hands. From sames dies as the eight specimens listed by RPC-675; from the same obverse die as the preceding lot. Bought from Fred Knobloch, ANA Show, 15 August 1966.
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