149, Lot: 342. Estimate $150. Sold for $206. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 20.91 g). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 104-107. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / AQVA TRAIANA in exergue, the genius of the Aqua Traiana reclining left, elbow resting on urn from which water flows, holding reed in right hand; all under an arched grotto without supporting columns. RIC II 463. Near VF, green patina, rough and corroded.

The Aqua Traiana was dedicated in AD 109 and supplied water to the expanding trans-Tiber (west bank) suburbs of Rome. The coin depicts the castellum, or waterworks, associated with the terminal of the aqueduct, and its statue of the river Tiber.