Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 24.14 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 111. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate bust right / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C across fields, Arabia standing left, holding branch and bundle of cinnamon sticks; to left, camel advancing left, ARAB • ADQVIS in exergue. RIC II 466; Woytek 363a; Banti 23. Green-brown patina, smoothing. Near EF. A handsome large bronze with a bold portrait.
Ex T. R. Fehrenbach Collection; Lanz 60 (11 June 1992), lot 433.
