Triton XVIII, Lot: 1070. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 29.63 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 103-107. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from front / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C in exergue, Trajan on horseback riding right, thrusting spear at falling Dacian before. RIC II 536; Woytek 203h (this coin referenced); Strack 361 (bust type unlisted); Banti 213; BMCRE –. EF, hard dark green patina with earthen overtones in devices. Good portrait coin for Trajan.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Kurt P Wyprächtiger Collection; Hess-Leu 49 (3 May 1971), lot 356.