Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1443. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Sestertius (29.24 g, 7h). Struck circa 104-107 AD. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C in exergue, arched, single-span bridge with six posts across Danube River; single-bay arches at either end, surmounted by statues; boat sailing left in river below. RIC II 569; Strack 385; Banti 261; BMCRE 849; cf. Cohen 542. Good VF, attractive green patina with hues of dark red, a hint of smoothing in fields on reverse, old nick on portrait under the patina. ($2000)

The bridge on this coin is believed to represent the great bridge Trajan had built over the Danube near Drobetae.