Powerful Heroic Bust of Trajan

CNG 99, Lot: 617. Estimate $4000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (26mm, 27.61 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 heroic bust left, slight drapery / S • P • Q • R • OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C across field, Ceres standing left, holding long torch and grain ears over modius to left. RIC II 478 var. (bust type); Woytek 240q; Banti 117; NAC 52, lot 412 (same obv. die). Good VF, green and brown patina, light smoothing, patina retouched in right field of obverse, reverse double struck. Magnificent and extremely rare bust type.

Ex Triton XVII (7 January 2014), lot 677.