Triton XVII, Lot: 674. Estimate $750. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 27.39 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 98-99. IMP CΛES NERVΛ TRΛIΛ N ΛVG GERM P M , laureate bust right, wearing aegis / TR POT COS II P P, SC in exergue, Pax seated left on throne, holding olive branch in extended right hand, scepter in left. RIC II 401 var. (bust type); Woytek 58e var. (break in obv. legend); Strack 317; Banti 321; BMCRE –; BN 25-6 var. (bust type). Good VF, green and gray-green patina, light smoothing. Rare. Banti cites only one example.

Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 883.