407, Lot: 398. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Sepphoris (Diocaesarea). Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ (25mm, 10.30 g, 12h). TPAIANOΣ AVTO-KPATΩP EΔΩKEN, laureate head right / Palm tree. Sofaer 2; RPC III 3937. VF, green-brown surfaces.

From the François Righetti Collection. Münz Zentrum 67 (7 November 1989), lot 1747.

Trajan’s issues from Sepphoris all feature this remarkable obverse legend, which indicates that the emperor granted Sepphoris the right to strike coinage.