297, Lot: 255. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Sepphoris (Diocaesarea). Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ (29mm, 15.12 g, 12h). TPAIANOΣ AVTO-KPATΩP EΔΩKEN, laureate head right / ΣEΠΦΩ/PHNΩN in two lines within wreath. Meshorer, City Coins 87; Rosenberger 3; SNG ANS 1086-7. VF, dark brown patina with earthen deposits.

Trajan’s issues from Sepphoris all feature this remarkable obverse legend, which indicates that the emperor “gave” or “permitted” the coinage.