416, Lot: 428. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 25.68 g, 3h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 112-113. Laureate head right / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, AQVA/TRAIANA in two lines in exergue, flanked by S C, Genius of the Aqua Traiana, holding reed in right hand and resting left arm on urn from which water flows, under arched grotto supported by two columns. RIC II 607 var. (bust with slight drapery); Woytek 448a; Banti 17. VF, dark green and red surfaces, reverse is heavily smoothed with a bit of tooling.

Ex Goldberg 98 (6 June 2017), lot 2242.