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Hostilian CONCORDIA AVGG from Rome

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Victor:

Here's a rarer type for Hostilian, son of Trajan Decius and Herennia Etruscilla.

His father and older brother, Herennius Etruscus, were killed by Goths at the battle of Arbitrus in the summer of A.D. 251. After the deaths, the Roman legions proclaimed Trebonianus Gallus the next emperor; and, in July of A.D. 251, he elevated Hostilian to co-emperor. Hostilian died in November of A.D. 251, either, according to differing sources, from plague or at the hand of Trebonianus Gallus.

Hostilian
A.D. 251
AR Antoninianus
22x23mm       3.8gm
C VALENS HOSTIL MES QVINTVS N C; radiate and draped bust right.
CONCORDIA AVGG; two clasped right hands
RIC IV Rome 174

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