Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 768. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Sestertius (26.76 g, 5h). Struck 116-117 AD. Laureate and draped bust right / Trajan standing front, head right, holding spear and parazonium; reclining to left and right: Euphrates, Armenia, and Tigris. RIC II 642; BMCRE 1036; Cohen 39. VF, brown and orichalcum, slightly grainy surfaces, flan crack, light obverse scrapes. ($750)