Sale: Nomos 8, Lot: 222. Estimate CHF1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 21 October 2013.  Sold For CHF2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 33mm, 24.57 g 6), Rome, 104. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P Laureate head of Trajan to right. Rev. S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI S C Pax standing facing, turned slightly to left and treading on a Dacian prisoner with her right foot, holding an olive branch in her right hand and a cornucopiae with her left. BMC -, note to 800. Cohen 406. Hill 190. RIC 503. Attractive brown and gold toning. Nearly extremely fine.

From a Swiss collection, ex Hess-Leu (19), 12 April 1962, 460 and from the Niklovits collection, L. Hamburger, 19 October 1925 (Ausländischer Amateur), 806.