Trajan Decius. AE 19-20; Trajan Decius; 249-251 AD, Edessa, Mesopotamia, AE 19-20, 5.22g. RPC-1538 (25 spec.). Obv: ?V G ????? ??? (sic) Bust radiate, draped, cuirassed r. Rx: [?]?? ?????A Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche l.; at l., small lighted altar. Ex Antioch Associates List 52, October 2000, no. 318. Emperor's name misspelled, ????? instead of ????O? (O omitted). Ten of the thirteen specimens of this coin illustrated by RPC online seem to come from one obverse die, the other three from a second obverse die. Our specimen and two others in the Behnen Collection come from the commoner of these two obverse dies.
($200)