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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8251733, member: 26430"]Very cool! I've got the matching pair too, it's a classic. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of the Sestertius (I need to get on that), but here is my recent upgraded DACIA AR Antoninianus, bought last year from Harlan Berk's 215th sale, lot 210 (possibly ex Behnen Collection of Decius?) -- [ATTACH=full]1453988[/ATTACH] I think it's from “The Bill Behnen Collection of Trajan Decius” but I've been unable to confirm. He had a nice, narrowly-focused collection on Decius and family, sold by Berk (mainly at Gemini XIII & XIV, and HJB 201 & 202). This coin was listed in HJB 215 as "Acquired from Christian Blom, 3 February 1964."... But acquired by whom? Behnen purchased many of his "Decii" from Christian Blom in the 1960s, so I suspect his name was simply inadvertently left off. (I've actually found that on a few others of his.) EDIT: Oh, almost forgot my DACCAP / Dacian captives! The captive at the base of a trophy was an often used type by then, but I think Trajan may have introduced the "sitting on a pile of arms" type, and may have been the only one to depict a lone, standing captive with hands bound (?) in front (hard to tell on this one, but sometimes it appears he has shackles on his wrists): [ATTACH=full]1453991[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1453992[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1453993[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]