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ID number: BIRBI-R1753 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Trajan Decius; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 249-251 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 14.42 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 1446. W. S. Lincoln, 1932. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Trajan Decius, wearing laurel wreath, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Felicitas, draped, standing facing l., holding long caduceus in r., and cornucopiae in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMI C M Q TRHIANVS CLCIVS ΛVC (Imperator Gaius Messius Quintus Trajan Decius Augustus). Reverse: GEN ILLVFICI S C (To the Genius [of the Army] in Illyria; S C - Translation Disputed).
Bibliography: RIC IV 116a
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