Banti Plate Coin

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3304. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (25.39 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa 112-115. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / ALIM ITAL in exergue, Abundantia (or Annona) standing front, head left, holding grain ears and cornucopia; at her side, togate child standing front. RIC II 604; Banti 8 (this coin illustrated). VF, mottled green and brown patina, minor smoothing.

From the John A. Seeger Collection. Ex Egger XLIII (14 April 1913), lot 728.