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Ex Trau Collection

275, Lot: 91. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 23.72 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 103-104. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust 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 573; Woytek 187h (this coin cited). Near VF, black-green patina, some roughness.


Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 119; Franz Trau Collection (Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 22 May 1935), lot 972.