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Web Auction 27  9-11 Sep 2023
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Lot 1225

Starting price: 100 CHF
Price realized: 320 CHF
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AEOLIS. Aegae. Trajan Decius, 249-251. Medallion (Bronze, 40 mm, 38.08 g, 12 h), M. Aur. Paulos, strategos. ΑΥΤ Κ Γ ΜЄϹ ΚΥΙΝ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΔЄΚ/ΙΟϹ Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan Decius to right, seen from behind. Rev. ЄΠΙ Ϲ Μ ΑΥΡ ΠΑΥΛΟΥ ΑΙΓΑЄΩ/Ν Zeus standing front, head to left, holding eagle in his right hand and long scepter in his left. RPC IX 569.7 (this coin). Very rare. A bold and impressive medallion. Pierced twice and with two additional attempted drill holes, otherwise, very fine.


Ex Leu Web Auction 19, 27 February 2022, 2100, Leu Web Auction 14, 12 December 2020, 965 and from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection, Gemini VI, 10 January 2010, 844, previously acquired from Robert E. Hecht Jr. in 1964 by the Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoe Wilbour.
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