315, Lot: 274. Estimate $100. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Sepphoris (Diocaesarea). Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ (23mm, 14.08 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. VF, brown patina, earthen deposits, compact flan.

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