Beschreibung
Material: Bronze
Gewicht: 3,89 g
Trajan Decius; 249-251 AD, Edessa, Mesopotamia, AE 17, 3.89g. RPC-1538 (25 spec.). Obv: [V ] Ɛ Ɛ (sic) Bust radiate, draped, cuirassed r. Rx: [] ƐƐ[A] Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche l.; at l., small lighted altar. Ex JSD Coins, List September 1974, no. 153. Emperors name misspelled, Ɛ instead of ƐO (O omitted). Ten of the thirteen specimens of this coin illustrated by RPC online seem to some from one obverse die, the other three from a second obverse die. All three of the specimens in the Behnen Collection come from the commoner of these two obverse dies.
