Interesting Foundation Scene
RPC Plate Coin – Ex Levante Collection

CNG 108, Lot: 459. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Mallus. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. Æ (37mm, 32.03 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Decius, as togate pontiff, standing left, offering statuette of Marsyas to Tyche and plowing pomerium with team of oxen right; to right, Amphilochus standing left, holding branch and crowning Decius with wreath; in exergue, boar standing left. SNG Levante 1291 = RPC IX 1433.6 (this coin, illustrated in both); SNG BN 1931. Good VF, dark green patina with areas of red-brown. Rare foundation scene.

Ex Edward J. Waddell inventory, January 2014; Kelly J. Krizan, M.D. Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 93, 22 May 2013), lot 878; Classical Numismatic Group 64 (24 September 2003), lot 664; Eduardo Levante Collection, 1291.