CNG 88, Lot: 1315. Estimate $750. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 26.20 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 103. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Trajan on horseback riding right, thrusting spear at Dacian soldier, falling down under horse. RIC II 534 var. (draped, no aegis); Woytek 203cB (same obv. die as illustration); Banti 209. Good VF, brown river surfaces, short hairline flan crack.

From the Sierra Collection.