Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1429. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Sestertius (25.41 gm). Struck 107 AD. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / CONGI-ARIVM TERTIVM, Trajan seated left in curule chair on raised daïs, extending hand; official seated before, drawing tessera from container and handing it to figure climbing ladder right and extending hand to receive it; extending hands to receive tessera from figure holding abacus before; statue of Liberalitas standing left, holding abacus, and tripod, on daïs behind. RIC II 469; BMCRE 769; Cohen -. Near VF, dark brown surfaces. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack's, 1-3 May 1980), lot 489.

As with the second largess, the exact occasion for the third is not known with certainty, but is probably also to be associated with the successful end of a Dacian campaign; the second Dacian war concluded the previous year.