266, Lot: 368. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 20.83 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 103-104. Laureate head right / Monumental votive arch/gateway; on the sides, from top to bottom, are the following reliefs: biga driven by Victory, aegis, Gigantomachy, arms, and she-wolf suckling twins; the second tier surmounted by a trophy and giant to either side, gateway spandrels with Victories, pediment with Jupiter between two seated figures, panel above pediment inscribed IOM (= Iovi Optimo Maximo), the whole surmounted by six-horse chariot driven by Jupiter and flanked by Victories. RIC II 572; Woytek 187a. Fine, brown surfaces with some minor smoothing, areas of corrosion.

From the Deyo Collection