Watch List notes:

Trajan Decius, 249-251. As (Copper, 26 mm, 11.50 g, 7 h), Rome. IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG Laureate and cuirassed bust of Trajan Decius to right, seen from behind. Rev. GENIVS EXERC ILLYRICIANI / S - C Genius standing front, head to left, holding patera in his right hand and cornucopiae in his left; behind to right, signum. Cohen 54. RIC 117c. With an attractive brown and green patina and a remarkably elegant portrait. Nearly extremely fine.


From the collection of a retired senior air force officer, ex Elsen 80, 12 June 2004, 531 and Sternberg XXII, 20-21 November 1989, 344.