329, Lot: 427. Estimate $200. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.95 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 104/5-107. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis (or slight drapery?) / The Danube standing left, placing knee on Dacia, whom he forces to the ground. RIC II 558 corr. (Tiber); Woytek 199b or c; Banti 230-5. Near VF, reddish-brown patina with tan highlights, flan crack. Scarce.

From the Fairfield Collection.

It is difficult to tell on this coin if Trajan is wearing an aegis, or just draped on the left shoulder