Banti Plate Coin

407, Lot: 564. Estimate $300. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 24.41 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 114-116. Laureate and draped bust right / IMPERATOR VIII/S C in two lines in exergue, 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. RIC II 655; Woytek 548v; Banti 78 (this coin illustrated). VF, brown surfaces, obverse pitting, collector’s mark on obverse in India ink. Over 100 year old pedigree!.

Ex Herzfelder Colllection (Egger XLIII, 14 April 1913), lot 752 .