420, Lot: 462. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 26.01 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 116-117. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust right / REX PARTHIS DATVS, S C in exergue, Trajan seated left on sella castrensis set on daïs, presenting Parthamaspates to Parthia kneeling right; to right of Trajan, prefect standing left. RIC II 667; Woytek 594v–2³ (same rev. die as illustration); Banti 96. VF, green patina, minor roughness.

Ex CNG Inventory (October 1996).