407, Lot: 415. Estimate $100. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MESOPOTAMIA, Rhesaena. Trajan Decius, with Herennius Etruscus. AD 249-251. Æ (25mm, 13.96 g, 5h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Decius right, facing bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust of Etruscus left / Two Tychai clasping hands over altar; eagle above; to left, statue on column; to right centaur left, shooting arrow from bow; in exergue, river-god swimming right. RPC IX 1597.8 (this coin). VF, black patina.
From the François Righetti Collection. Ex Kölner Münzkabinett 40 (19 November 1985), lot 1110; Kölner Münzkabinett 36 (16 April 1984), lot 94.