Description: Syria, Antioch, Hostilian as Caesar (250 - 251 AD). ΓO VAΛ OCTIΛIAN ME KYINTOC KECAP; bareheaded and draped bust right / ANTIOXEΩN MHTPOKOΛΩN; tetrastyle temple, Tyche within, river-god Orontes swimming below, ram leaping right above the temple, Δ-E across fields, SC in ex.

Diameter: AE30 mm

Weight: 14,68 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: McAlee 1163

Commentary: attractive dark olive-brown sand patina, well centered, good details

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: 042-02-02-41652