Three Examples Cited by Banti

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 611. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (24.52 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 103. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C across field, Roma, wearing crested helmet and military dress, standing front, head left, holding Victory in right hand and vertical spear in left; before, small Dacian, kneeling right, raising right hand to Roma. RIC II 485; Strack 371; Banti 123; BMCRE 774; Cohen 387. Good VF, black-green patina, fields lightly smoothed. Rare, only three examples cited by Banti.

Ex Freeman & Sear FPL 5 (Spring 1998), no. E115.