Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 918. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (26.55 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 103. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, slight drapery / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C across field, Victory standing right, left foot on helmet, holding [stylus] in right hand, leaning left hand on shield inscribed VIC/DAC in two lines set on palm tree. RIC II 527; Strack 373; Banti 162; BMCRE 812; Cohen 452. Near EF, dark green patina, areas of minor roughness and smoothing.