258, Lot: 386. Estimate $100. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 23.47 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 112-115. Laureate and draped bust right / BASILICA VLPIA in exergue, the Basilica Ulpia: building façade with three distyle avant-corps, each set on two-tiered base; central epistylon surmounted by triumphal quadriga; figures on either side holding outer horses and long scepters; flanking epistyla each surmounted by biga; pair of legionary aquilae at outer ends; ornate architrave above. RIC II 616 var. (undraped); Woytek 464v. Fair, tan patina, some roughness.