276, Lot: 396. Estimate $100. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 23.86 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 103-104. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Monumental votive arch/gateway; on the sides, from top to bottom, are the following reliefs: biga driven by Victory, aegis, Gigantomachy, arms, and she-wolf suckling twins; the second tier surmounted by a trophy and giant to either side, gateway spandrels with Victories, pediment with Jupiter between two seated figures, panel above pediment inscribed IOM (= Iovi Optimo Maximo), the whole surmounted by six-horse chariot driven by Jupiter and flanked by Victories. RIC II 572; Woytek 187b; Banti 277. Near Fine, brown patina, minor peripheral roughness.

From the Collection of Dick Schultz. Ex Davissons Auction 28 (December 2009), lot 175.