Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1769. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (24.86 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 103-111. Laureate bust right / Dacia seated left on pile of shields, in attitude of discouragement; to left, an anthropomorphic army trophy; round shield at the base of it. RIC II 564; Banti 247. Good VF, green patina with spots of red, surfaces lightly smoothed, minor roughness on reverse. Very rare, Banti records only one example.