CNG 105, Lot: 864. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 27.87 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 107-110. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Emperor on horse galloping right, about to spear fallen Dacian. RIC II 543 var. (bust type); Woytek 317cC; Banti 201. EF, brown surfaces, minor areas of roughness. Impressive.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 10057 (March 1996).