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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3495815, member: 85693&quot;]Wow.&nbsp; I really like sestertii from this era and these are just splendid. </p><p><br /></p><p>In order to provide comic relief for the Perfect 10 ideal, here are my two most recent finds from that era.&nbsp; They were unidentified by the seller and I got &#039;em for under $20 for the pair - the Treb. Gallus is actually not quite as bad in hand as my photo, but the Trajan Decius is just as ugly as it looks here: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]926010[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Trebonianus Gallus</b></p><p><b>Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(251-253 A.D.)</b></p><p>[IMP CAES C VIBIVS TR]EBON[IANVS GALLVS AVG], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / [PIETAS AVGG], S-C, Pietas standing facing, altar to left.</p><p>RIC 117a; Sear 9676</p><p>(16.70 grams / 24 mm)</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Trajan Decius&nbsp; Æ Sestertius </b></p><p><b>(249-251 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[IMP C] M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, laureate cuirassed bust right / GEN [ILLVRICI] S-C, Genius standing left, holding patera and cornucopiae (no standard)</p><p>RIC 116a; Cohen 47.</p><p>(14.95 grams / 26 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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