RIC IV Trajan Decius 216

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Typological Description

  • Date: AD 251
  • Object Type: Coin
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Denomination: Sestertius
  • Material: Bronze

  • Authority

  • Geographic

  • Obverse

    • Type: Bust of Hostilian, head bare, draped, right
    • Portrait: Hostilian
      • State: Roman Empire
    • Legend: C VALENS HOSTIL MES QVINTVS N C | C VAL HOST M QVINT CAES

  • Reverse

    • Legend: PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS S C
    • Type: Hostilian, in military attire, standing left, holding standard in right hand and spear reversed in left hand
    • Portrait: Hostilian
      • State: Roman Empire

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Subtype Obverse Reverse Examples of this type
RIC IV Trajan Decius 216A
  • Legend: C VALENS HOSTIL MES QVINTVS N C
  • Type: Bust of Hostilian, head bare, draped, right
  • Portrait: Hostilian
    • State: Roman Empire
  • Legend: PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS S C
  • Type: Hostilian, in military attire, standing left, holding standard in right hand and spear reversed in left hand
  • Portrait: Hostilian
    • State: Roman Empire
objects: 8
RIC IV Trajan Decius 216B
  • Legend: C VAL HOST M QVINT CAES
  • Type: Bust of Hostilian, head bare, draped, right
  • Portrait: Hostilian
    • State: Roman Empire
  • Legend: PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS S C
  • Type: Hostilian, in military attire, standing left, holding standard in right hand and spear reversed in left hand
  • Portrait: Hostilian
    • State: Roman Empire

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Bronze Coin of Trajan Decius, Rome, AD 251 1995.11.1272
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
27.0
Weight (in gr.)
16.69
Bronze Coin of Trajan Decius, Rome, AD 251 1984.176.51
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
29.0
Weight (in gr.)
17.19
Bronze Coin of Trajan Decius, Rome, AD 251 1944.100.27009
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
30.0
Weight (in gr.)
18.52
Sestertius of Hostilian
Collection
Harvard Art Museums
Identifier
2008.115.301
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
21.3
Münze, Sesterz, 251 n. Chr.?
Collection
Münzkabinett der Universität Göttingen
Identifier
158485
Axis
11
Weight (in gr.)
20.300
Hostillianus Quintus 251 n. Chr.
Collection
Münzkabinett Wien
Identifier
ID533748
Axis
1
Diameter (in mm)
31
Weight (in gr.)
14.81
Hostilianus 251 n. Chr.
Collection
Münzkabinett der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Identifier
ID2600
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
31
Weight (in gr.)
19.66
Hostilianus (Caesar) 251 n. Chr.
Collection
Münzsammlung des Seminars für Alte Geschichte der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Identifier
ID5591
Axis
6
Diameter (in mm)
24
Weight (in gr.)
16.19
Traianus Decius für Hostilianus Caesar 251 n. Chr.
Collection
The Digital Coin Cabinet of the University of Cologne, Department of History, Ancient History, and Department of Classics, Byzantine Studies
Identifier
ID988
Axis
6
Diameter (in mm)
30
Weight (in gr.)
19.03

Quantitative Analysis

Average measurements for this coin type:

Axis
9.33
Diameter (in mm)
28.86
Weight (in gr.)
18.19

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