Description: Troas, Ilion, Trajan Decius (249 - 251 AD). AΥT K MEC TΡAI ΔEKIOC; laureate cuirassed bust right / ΙΛΙΕΩΝ ΘEOI, ΕΚΤΩΡ (in ex.); Hector, brandishing shield and spear, looking back, in biga right.

Diameter: AE21 mm

Weight: 3,64 g

Grade: F/gF

Attribution: not in known references

Commentary: very rare; bronze and black surfaces

History: Siege of Troy and the Homeric heroes were familiar motifs to the Romans which saw in the Trojan Aenaeas the mythical ancestral founding hero.

Article Number: 059-03-08-42384