Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 1780. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2002.  Sold For $1375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Sestertius (27.78 gm). Struck 115-116 AD. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / IMPERATOR VIIII, S C in exergue, Trajan seated right on platform, placed on left, accompanied by two officers and addressing five soldiers. RIC II 658 var. (not cuirassed); BMCRE 1019 var. (same); Cohen 178 var. (same). EF, brown patina, some smoothing in fields. Unpublished with this bust variety. ($1500)