From the Garrett and Baron Delbeke Collections
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.89 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 104/5-107. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, slight drapery on shoulder / S • P • Q • R • OPTIMO PRINCIPI , Victory standing right, foot on helmet, holding stylus and resting hand on shield inscribed VIC/DAC in two lines set on palm tree, S C across fields. RIC II 527; Woytek 204bA; Banti 162. Dark green patina, areas of very light smoothing. Near EF.
Ex T. R. Fehrenbach Collection; Classical Numismatic Review XXVI (Summer 2001), no. 102; John Work Garrett Collection (Part I, Numismatic Fine Arts/Bank Leu, 16 May 1984), lot 773, purchased from M. Schulman, 1 April 1927, for $63; Baron Delbeke Collection.
