Triton XVIII, Lot: 1077. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Plotina. Augusta, AD 105-123. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 27.56 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Trajan, AD 112-August 117. PLOTINA AVG IMP TRAIANI, draped bust right, hair elaborately dressed in two tiers over brow, above which is a stephane, and elaborately waved at the back, falling down her neck in plait / FIDES AVGVST, S C across field, Fides standing right, holding grain ears in right hand, basket of fruit in left. RIC II 740 (Trajan); Woytek 711; Strack 441; Banti 1; BMCRE 1080-2; BN 730, 732. VF, brown surfaces, areas of green patina, hairline flan crack, some roughness. Rare.

From the RAM Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, May 2001. Ex Leo Benz Collection (Lanz 94, 22 November 1999), lot 469; acquired from J. Schulman, Amsterdam, August 1976.