420, Lot: 459. Estimate $1000. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 24.05 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 five soldiers with horse who hold two signa and an aquila. RIC II 655; Woytek 548v; cf. Banti 79. VF, dark green patina. Rare.

Ex CNG Inventory 708836 (January 1999).