Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1444. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Dupondius (15.25 g, 6h). Struck circa 104-107 AD. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, radiate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C in exergue, Salus seated left, holding patera in extended right hand from which she feeds snake rising from lit altar. RIC II 516; Strack 401; BMCRE 893; Cohen 487. EF, wonderful hard apple green patina with light earthen dusting. ($1000)

From the Harry Strickhausen Collection.