377, Lot: 402. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33.5mm, 26.57 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 98-99. IMP CAES NERVA TRAIA N AVG GERM P M TR P, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / COS II P P CONG P R, S C in exergue, Distribution scene: Trajan seated left on curule chair set on platform on right, extending right hand in front of him on a second platform is an office seated left, and before him, a man standing right, holding out fold of toga; to left, citizen mounting steps to the second platform; in background, Liberalitas standing holding abacus in right hand. RIC II 381; Woytek 64c; Banti 43. VF, green and brown surfaces, smoothing, touched up in places. Very rare.