284, Lot: 208. Estimate $400. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Sepphoris (Diocaesarea). Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ (215mm, 14.61 g, 12h). Laureate head right / ΣEΠΦΩ/PHNΩN in two lines within wreath. Meshorer, City Coins, 87; SNG ANS 1086-7; Rosenberger 3. Good VF, green surfaces with earthen highlights.

Trajan’s issues from Sepphoris all feature this remarkable obverse legend, which indicates that the emperor “gave” or “permitted” the coinage.