153, Lot: 203. Estimate $100. Sold for $185. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 22.46 g). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 107-111. Laureate head right / 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. Fair, brown surfaces.

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.