108, Lot: 129. Estimate $200. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.65 gm). Struck 115 AD. Laureate and draped bust right / IMP VIII, Trajan, in military outfit, seated right on camp bench set on daïs, extending hand to three soldiers holding spears, two of whom extend their hands to Trajan; fourth soldier holds horse at ready; three military standards behind; two military figures standing behind Trajan; third stands before daïs, holding spear. RIC II 657; BMCRE 1019; Cohen 178. VF, brown patina, some roughness, fields lightly smoothed.

From the Rudolf Berk Collection.