Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 121 - Session 4 . 922
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Herennius Etruscus. As Caesar, AD 249-251. AV Aureus (19mm, 3.44 g, 6h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 5th emission of Trajan Decius, early AD 251. Q HER ETR MES DECIVS NOB C, bareheaded and draped bust right / PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS, Herennius, in military attire, standing left, holding signum in right hand and vertical reversed spear in left. RIC IV 148a; Calicó 3312 (but with a photograph of a coin of Hostilian in error); Adda –; Biaggi –; Jameson –; Mazzini –; Roma XIII, lot 887 (same dies). A few scratches on reverse. Good VF. Charming youthful portrait. Rare. Ex George Hopkins Collection (Nomos 19, 17 Novmeber 2019), lot 322; Numismatica Ars Classica 114 (6 May 2019), lot 800; Nomos 13 (7 October 2016), lot 282 (hammer CHF 19,000).
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