Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1583. Estimate $3500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Sestertius (21.97 gm, 7h). Struck circa 116-117 AD. Laureate and draped bust right / REX PARTHIS DATVS, Trajan, laureate, seated left on camp bench set on daïs, presenting Parthamaspates, who is touching his crown, to Parthia kneeling right; military figure standing behind Trajan. RIC II 667; BMCRE 1046; Cohen 328. Good VF, brown and green patina. ($3500)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 623.