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170, Lot: 232. Estimate $300.
Sold for $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Dupondius (27mm, 13.89 g). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 112-115. Radiate and draped bust right / Trajan's Column: column with spirals and dots set on podium decorated with eagles, surmounted by statue of Trajan standing left, holding patera in extended right hand, scepter in left. RIC II 603 corr. (bust type); BMCRE 995; Cohen 563. Good VF, mottled green patina, some roughness and minor smoothing.


Trajan's Column was the crowning glory of Trajan's Forum, built with the spoils of the Dacian Wars, and the last and greatest of the Imperial Fora. Covered by a continuous frieze of the war's events, the column was capped with a gilded heroic statue of the emperor, while an inscription on the base recounted the feat of engineering in the Forum's construction. After Trajan's death, the column became the repository of his ashes