Triton XVIII, Lot: 1071. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 23.96 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 106-107. 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, Roma, wearing crested helmet and military dress, standing front, head left, holding Victory in right hand and vertical spear in left; before, small Dacian, kneeling right, raising right hand to Roma. RIC II 485; Woytek 250c-2; Strack 371 (bust type unlisted); Banti 123; BMCRE 774. Good VF, green patina, trace of smoothing in fields.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Vecchi 8 (4 December 1997), lot 270.