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Kodrula (AD 249-251) AE 35 - Trajan Decius
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Trajan Decius, 249-251 AD. AE35 (26.58g). AYT K Γ ΜЄCI KYIN TPAIA ΔЄKION, bust radiate, draped, cuirassed right / KOΔPOYΛЄΩΠRhea seated right, facing Kronos seated left holding harpa and scepter; small statue behind each of them. VF. Ex Gerson Coll.; ex CNG 63 (5/2003), lot 1022. Earlier in the Hecht Coll., published in Numismatic Chronicle 1968, p. 31,13, pl. X.
Von Aulock knew only this coin and two others, in Paris and BM, all three from the same pair of dies. The reverse die, remarkably enough, was some forty years old, having earlier been used for both Septimius Severus and Philip I, von Aulock's nos. 996 and 1020, pl. 22 and pl. 24.
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