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Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.77 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa mid AD 107-110. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Arched, single-span bridge with seven posts across river; single-bay arches at either end; boat sailing left in river below. RIC II 569; Woytek 314bC4; Banti 262. Green patina, smoothed. Good VF.
From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Lanz 161 (7 December 2015), lot 292.
The bridge on the reverse of this coin is generally thought to be that constructed across the Danube by Trajan’s architect, Apollodorus of Damascus, in AD 104. There is good circumstantial evidence for this. The date range for this coin’s issue is closely contemporary with the date of the bridge’s construction and would fit in well programmatically with those war-related issues of the same time frame.
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