Woytek Plate Coin

CNG 100, Lot: 1854. Estimate $750. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 28.09 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 104/5-107. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Pax standing left, holding olive branch and cornucopia; her foot on shoulder of half-length Dacian bust left; trophy to right. Cf. RIC II 503-4; Woytek 200bA–2² (this coin, illustrated); cf. Banti 131. VF, dark brown and tan surfaces. Very rare variety with trophy to right.

Ex Aureo & Calicó (28 May 2008), lot 68.