CNG 97, Lot: 652. Estimate $400. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 25.86 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 107-110. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Trajan on horseback riding right, thrusting spear at fallen Dacian below. RIC II 543; Woytek 317cC1 (same dies); Banti 202. Good VF, green and brassy-brown surfaces, some smoothing affecting the aegis, edge split.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio 174, 11 January 2013), lot 6146; Zigmond Collection.