Sale: Nomos 7, Lot: 166. Estimate CHF2500. Closing Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2013. Bidding Closed. |
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Trajan. AD 98-117. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 33mm, 27.29 g 6), Rome, 104. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P Laureate head of Trajan to right, with aegis on his far shoulder.
Rev. S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI S C Pax standing facing, turned slightly to left and treading on a Dacian prisoner with her right foot, holding an olive branch in her right hand and a cornucopiae with her left. BMC 801. Cphen 407. Hill 190. RIC 503. With an attractive dark green and brown patina. Some minor smoothing in the fields,
otherwise, extremely fine.