349, Lot: 330. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Sepphoris (Diocaesarea). Trajan. 98-117 CE. Æ (27mm, 16.45 g, 12h). Laureate head right / ΣEΠΦΩ/PHNΩN in two lines within wreath. Meshorer, City Coins, 87; SNG ANS 1086-7; Rosenberger 3. Near VF, green patina.

Trajan’s issues from Sepphoris all feature this remarkable obverse legend, which indicates that the emperor “gave” or “permitted” the coinage.