420, Lot: 456. Estimate $300. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 23.84 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 107-110. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Trajan standing left, holding thunderbolt and reversed spear, being crowned by Victory standing left, holding palm frond. RIC II 549; Woytek 320bC; Banti 221. VF, brown patina, some porosity.

Ex Leopold G. Messenger Collection (ACCG Benefit Auction, 17 August 2008), lot 123.