314, Lot: 291. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Sepphoris (Diocaesarea). Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ (27mm, 17.03 g, 12h). TPAIANOΣ AVTO-KPATΩP EΔΩKEN, laureate head right / ΣEΠΦΩ/[PHN]ΩN in two lines within wreath. Meshorer, City Coins 87; Rosenberger 3; SNG ANS 1086-7. Fair, rough grayish-green patina, metal flaw on obverse.

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