Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 769. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Sestertius (25.67 g, 6h). Struck 116-117 AD. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / REX PARTHIS DATVS, Trajan seated left on camp bench set on daïs, placing diadem on the head of king Parthamaspates who stands before him; on left, Parthia kneeling right in supplication; prefect standing left behind Trajan. RIC II 668; BMCRE 1045; Cohen 328. Good VF, dark brown, slightly granular surfaces, minor obverse flan flaws. ($750)

Ex Palladium (22 November 1995), lot 244.