153, Lot: 205. Estimate $100. Sold for $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 21.03 g). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 107-111. Laureate head right / View of the Circus Maximus, showing a colonnaded front (the Duodecim Portae), with arched gateway surmounted by facing quadriga, on right, a similar arch with quadriga, and another arch surmounted by quadriga facing right, temple of Sol along back wall; within from left to right, meta, equestrian statue of Trajan, obelisk of Augustus, shrine of Cybele, and a second meta. RIC II 571. Fair, brown surfaces.