Description: Moesia Superior, Viminacium, Hostilian (250 - 251 AD) as Caesar. C VAL HOST M QVINTVS CAE; bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / P M S COL VIM; Moesia standing facing, head left, between a bull standing right and lion left, AN XII in ex.

Diameter: AE27 mm

Weight: 12,44 g

Grade: aVF/gF

Attribution: Varbanov I 200, Moushmov 52

Commentary: green patina, full legends

History: Hostilian survived the death of his father, Trajan Decius, and brother, Herennius Etruscus, on the battlefield and stayed nominally the co-emperor of Trebonianus Gallus, dying only some months later in the plague epidemic - the first emperor after Septimius Severus (211 AD) to die of natural causes.

Article Number: 046-06-04-41652