Unidentified photographer / artist, 1874, XXXIII Trajanus Decius., Plate, tipped in, Google Books, LL/36937
Unidentified photographer / artist 1874 XXXIII Trajanus Decius.
Plate, tipped in Google Books John Edward Lee Roman Imperial Photographs being a selection of forty enlarged Photographs of Roman Coins (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874), plate XXXIII.
TRAJANUS DECIUS.
i ?. IMP. C. M. Q. TRAJANVS DECIVS AVG.
Caius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius was born at Bubalia, in Pannonia, A.D. 201. He was sent by Philip to suppress the revolt of Marinus, in M£sia and Pannonia, but was himself proclaimed Emperor by the Legions of these provinces, and kept on the throne by the death of Philip A.D. 249. He lost his life in a marsh, after an unfortunate battle with the Goths near Abricium, in Thrace, A.D. 251.
