Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1433. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Sestertius (24.85 gm). Struck circa 112-115 AD. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / AQVA/TRAIANA in two lines in exergue, the Genius of the Aqua Traiana reclining left under arched and ornamented grotto on urn from which water flows, holding reed. RIC II 608; BMCRE 975; cf. Cohen 23. Good VF, black-green patina, trace of roughness. ($2000)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.

The Aqua Traiana was dedicated in 109 AD, and supplied water to the expanding Trans-Tiber (west bank) suburbs of Rome. The coin depicts the castellum, or waterworks, associated with the terminal of the aqueduct, and its statue of the river Tiber.