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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 5193692, member: 85693&quot;]A very interesting coin!&nbsp; Here is something along the same lines that I picked up.&nbsp; This is a cut n&#039; paste from a thread I started a while back:</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently picked up an odd Trajan Decius antoninianus cheap on eBay that I was having a great deal of trouble attributing. It features PIETAS AVGG with Mercury on the reverse, not a type normally issued for Trajan Decius. </p><p><br /></p><p>Stumped, I contacted Richard at the wonderful Four Bad Years website (one of my favorites: <a href="http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/" rel="nofollow">http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/</a>). Richard told me this was a mule, a Trajan Decius Milan mint obverse (IMP CAE TRA DEC AVG legend) muled with a Herennius Etruscus or Hostillian reverse (they both used the PIETAS AVGG with Mercury type). </p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see from the Four Bad Years website, there are a lot of oddities like this during this &quot;four bad years&quot; time period, especially at the branch mints. As far as I can tell this is unlisted. It might be a counterfeit, although I am pretty sure it is ancient. The metal and weight are pretty good for this era. </p><p><br /></p><p>Any others out there like this? Or other 3rd century mules or weirdos? </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trajan-decius-ant-pietas-avgg-rev-apr-2018-1-jpg.772457/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trajan-decius-ant-pietas-avgg-rev-apr-2018-10-jpg.772458/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; &nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Trajan Decius Antoninianus</b></p><p><b>(250-251 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Milan mint </b></p><p>IMP CAE TRA DECIVS AVG, radiate, draped &amp; cuirassed bust right draped / PIETAS AVGG Mercury standing left, holding purse &amp; caduceus.</p><p>Unlisted mule; Her. Etruscus or Hostilian rev. with Decius obv.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trajan-decius-oddity-milan-mint-obverse-muled-with-herenius-etruscus-hostilian-reverse.315893/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trajan-decius-oddity-milan-mint-obverse-muled-with-herenius-etruscus-hostilian-reverse.315893/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trajan-decius-oddity-milan-mint-obverse-muled-with-herenius-etruscus-hostilian-reverse.315893/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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