Triton XVII, Lot: 676. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.97 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 104/5-107. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / S • P • Q • R • OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C across field, Victory standing right, draped from her waist down, with left foot set on helmet, holding stylus in right hand and resting left on shield set on palm tree trunk, inscribed VIC/DAC in two lines. RIC II 528; Woytek 204cA; Strack 373; Banti 168; BMCRE 813-4; BN 546. Good VF, gray-brown patina, areas of red.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.23038.