Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1273. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONTORNIATE, In the name of Divus Trajan. Circa late 4th century AD. Æ 37mm (22.67 gm, 7h). DIVO NERVA-E TRAIANO, laureate bust of Divus Trajan right, slight drapery on left shoulder; PE monogram in right field / 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. Alföldi, Kontorniat, Tf. 221, 3 (this coin). Good VF, mottled brown surfaces. ($2000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack's, 1-3 May 1980), lot 1403.