The Via Traiana

264, Lot: 403. Estimate $1000. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 25.15 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 112-114. Laureate and draped bust right / The Via Traiana reclining left on rock outcropping, head right, holding wheel; in two lines in exergue, VIA TRAIANA/ S C. RIC II 637; Woytek 476v. VF, dark green patina, light smoothing and tooling.

The Via Traiana, constructed at Trajan's own expense between AD 109 and AD 113, replaced the Via Appia as the usual route between Brindisium to Beneventum and served as an important link between Rome and the East.