120, Lot: 129. Estimate $500. Sold for $1611. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 22.98 g). Struck 103 AD. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Trajan seated left on high platform extending right hand, large tripod before, before him sits an officer distributing tessera to a citizen standing right on steps; Liberalitas standing left behind holding abacus. RIC II 450; BMCRE 767; Banti pg. 223, 49/2 (this coin); Cohen 61. VF, dark brown patina, surfaces a little rough. Rare.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.