Second Known?

284, Lot: 160. Estimate $300. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PISIDIA, Isinda. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. Æ (40mm, 25.37 g, 4h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Decius right / Bareheaded and draped bust of Demos right, stroking his beard with his fingers. Von Aulock, Pisidiens 890 = R. E. Hecht, “Some Greek Imperial coins in my collection,” NC (1968), p. 33, 18 = ANS 1973.191.86 (same dies) . Fine, rough brown surfaces, flan split at edge. Very rare, only one specimen cited in von Aulock.

From the R. D. Frederick Collection.

Hecht (p. 33) notes: “The bald and bearded philosopher portrait used for the Demos of Isinda was probably inspired by the portrait of Aratos on the imperial coins of not too distant Pompeiopolis.”