CNG 96, Lot: 791. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 25.13 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 114-116. Laureate and draped bust right / IMPERATOR VIII/S C in two lines in exergue, Trajan seated right on sella castrensis set on high platform, two officers at his side, haranguing a group of six soldiers who hold two signa and an aquila. RIC II 656; Woytek 548v; Banti 78. Good VF, brown surfaces, some green, minor roughness, some marks on obverse. Rare.