VOTIS DECENNALIBVS

Reference : AYC #18, RIC 21

Weight: ?

Metal: Bronze

Diameter: ?

Scarcity: Very rare

Type:

Obverse

Reverse

IMP CAES D CAEL BALBINVS AVG

Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Balbinus to the right, seen from three quarters ahead.

/ VOTIS _ DECENNA _ LIBVS _ S – C

Wreath within words VOTIS DECENNALIBVS on the middle in three lines. Below: SC.

Photo from the catalog quoted below, with kind permission of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, link to Gallica for download the catalog: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98145267/f139.item.

Coin illustrated in the catalog: ''Adolph Hess, 9 mai 1932. catalog 211, Römische Münzen Sammlungen Frederick A. Walters und Percy H. Webb. Luzern.'' The coin is the lot 1325, collection Frederic A.Walters.

Another coin sold the 13/03/2017 by Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 288, lot 777, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3687325, weight: 9.88 grs. Different reverse die (probably same obverse die, to be confirmed). We see one or more dots under DECENNA, the coins seen are all in poor condition and do not allow us to confirm the absence or the number of these dots. These dots may be flaws. Neither of the two coins pictured in the RIC 4B and in the catalog cited above, seems to have a visible dot on the reverse, the surface is smooth.