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389, Lot: 646. Estimate $500.
Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33.5mm, 25.61 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 116-117. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust right / REX PARTHIS DATV[S], S C in exergue, Trajan seated left on sella castrensis set on daïs, presenting Parthamaspates to Parthia kneeling right; to right of Trajan, prefect standing left. RIC II 667; Woytek 594v; Banti 96. VF, dark gray patina, some red, fields smoothed. Rare.


From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 1289.