Lot 4871

Description

Trajan Decius, (250-251 A.D.), onsecration issue for Divus Titus, silver antoninianus, Milan mint, (3.95 g), obv. radiate head to right of Titus, around DIVO TITO, rev. lighted altar, CONSECRATIO around, (S.9464, RSC 405 [Titus], RIC 82b). Lightly toned with flan crack, good very fine and scarce.

Ex Dr. V.J.A. Flynn Collection and previously from M.R.Roberts retail sale in packet described and from the Ron Hansen Collection.
Only two specimens recorded in the Dorchester Hoard.
These restitution issues of Trajan Decius are of selected deified emperors and the contemporary judgement on past emperors made at this time excluded some like Claudius but included others such as Titus and suprisingly even Commodus. The typology of the series is uniform both for obverse style, the reverse legend and the subject theme. One of the most interesting commemorative series.