120, Lot: 268. Estimate $500. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN DECIUS. 249-251 AD. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 17.36 g). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Decius seated left on curule chair set on a low platform, right hand extended, officer standing left behind him, Liberalitas standing before holding abacus and cornucopiae; citizen climbing steps with both hands extended. RIC IV 121; Cohen 75. VF, brown patina with some red spots. Rare reverse type.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.