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Triton XVI, Lot: 1078. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.24 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 106-107. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C across field, Ceres standing left, holding long, vertical torch in left hand and two grain ears in right over modius at her feet. RIC II 478-80 var. (bust type); Woytek 240f; Strack 398; Banti 113-6 var. (same); BMCRE 771 var. (same); BN 511-2 var. (same). Good VF, hard green patina, small area of roughness along edge. A wonderful example of an old, natural patina.