Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1812. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONTORNIATE, In the name of Divus Trajan. Circa late 4th century AD. Æ 38mm (23.56 gm). Laureate bust of Divus Trajan right, slight drapery on left shoulder / Aerial view of chariot race in the Circus Maximus: spina with obelisk of Augustus flanked by metae, lap-counter, and statues of horseman and boar right; two quadrigae left above; two quadrigae right below, one with charioteer holding palm and extending hand; figure between, waving mappa below. Alföldi, Kontorniat, Tafel 150, 3 (same dies). VF, mottled red, brown, and green patina, light scratches in fields. ($1000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.