Triton XXII, Lot: 1069. Estimate $4000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33.5mm, 25.91 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 114-116. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust right / SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS, S C across field, Felicitas standing facing, head left, holding caduceus with her right hand and cornucopia with left. RIC II 672; Woytek 534v; BMCRE 1022-3; BN 845-6; Banti 106. Near EF, attractive dark green patina.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 59 (4 April 2011), lot 979; Rauch 84 (13 May 2009), lot 500; Classical Numismatic Review XXVII (Summer 2002), no. 70.