Trajan Decius. ; Trajan Decius; 249-251 AD, Aspendus, Pamphylia, AE 23-24, 7.46g. RPC-1055 (1 spec.), pl. 72 (same dies). Obv: AVT KAIC G M[E]C - C KV TPAIAN ?EKIOC C Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed r. Rx: AC?E - N?ION Serapis stepping l., raising r. hand and holding scepter almost upright in l. hand. Seller and date of purchase not recorded, though Mr. Behnen retained the dealer's envelope, with price in dollars and handwritten description in English misattributing the coin to Hostilian. Very rare, apparently only the second recorded specimen, and from the same dies as the one in Vienna described and illustrated by RPC. For the same obverse die coupled with three other reverse types see RPC-1053, 1054 and 1056.
($150)