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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3142511, member: 75937&quot;]That&#039;s a cool coin, [USER=80783]@Julius Germanicus[/USER] , and the old Spink ticket is great! And I see you&#039;ve decided to keep both of your original two sestertii of Decius from the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/celebrity-death-match-trajan-decius.300990/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/celebrity-death-match-trajan-decius.300990/">Celebrity Death Match</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have another of Decius&#039; geographical coins. This one depicts the two Pannoniae.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pannonia was a large region to the west of Dacia which formed much of the north-western part of the Balkan peninsula. The territory roughly comprised present-day western Hungary and parts of eastern Austria, as well as portions of several Balkan states, primarily Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia (Vojvodina). The Pannonians were mainly Illyrians, but there were some Celts in the western part of the province. It is the orange area in the upper left corner of this map:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]803460[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Roman conquest of the area began in 35 BC under Octavian and was completed in 14 BC with the capture of Sirmium. Pannonia was organized as a separate province in AD 9 and garrisoned with three legions. Trajan divided the province about AD 106 into two parts. The western and northern districts constituted Pannonia Superior, while the southern and eastern districts comprised Pannonia Inferior.</p><p><br /></p><p>The division of this region into two parts is personified by two female figures on a variety of coins of Trajan Decius. Decius owed a lot of gratitude to the Pannonians; they were the first to proclaim his election to the purple, and it was to the fidelity and bravery of the Pannonian legions that he owed his victory over Philip.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]803462[/ATTACH]</p><p>Trajan Decius AD 249-251.</p><p>Roman Æ sestertius, 15.11 g, 29.4 mm, 1 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 250-251.</p><p>Obv: IMP CMQ TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev: PANNONIAE S C, the two Pannoniae standing side by side, holding standards.</p><p>Refs: RIC 124a; Cohen 87; Sear 9407; Hunter 54.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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