Triton XX, Lot: 725. Estimate $3000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 28.23 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 114-116. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust right / Trajan seated right on sella castrensis set on high platform, two officers at his side, haranguing a group of six soldiers who hold two signa and an aquila; IMPERATOR VIII/S C in two lines in exergue. RIC II 656; Woytek 548v; Strack 463; Banti 78; BMCRE 1017; BN 843. EF, dark brown surfaces with patches of green and red, light cleaning and smoothing marks.

From the Kallman Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 164 (17 March 2008), lot 396.