202, Lot: 254. Estimate $500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ As (27mm, 10.95 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 107-111. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / Octastyle temple with portico on either side; within temple, figure of Jupiter seated facing; sculptural figures adorning architrave and roof. RIC II 577 var. (draped). VF, dark gray-green patina.

From the White Mountain Collection. Ex Kricheldorf XXIX (3 March, 1975), lot 309.

Philip Hill has argued that this type represents the Temple of Jupiter Victor on the Palatine Hill, further positing that this was the same temple that was later rededicated to Sol El-Gabal under Elagabalus.