298, Lot: 145. Estimate $200. Sold for $257. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ As (27mm, 10.08 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 103-104. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Column in form of a club, resting on lion skin placed on pedestal. RIC II 581; Woytek 176b. VF, black patina, surfaces slightly rough. Scarce and interesting type.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.