401, Lot: 499. Estimate $500. Sold for $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 25.55 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 104/5-107. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust left, wearing aegis / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C in exergue, Trajan, in military dress, on horseback riding right, thrusting spear at a Dacian soldier, falling down, holding up both hands, and looking back at Trajan. RIC II 535 var. (aegis instead of drapery); Woytek 203p; Banti 216; BMCRE –. VF, dark brown patina, minor porosity. Rare with bust left and with aegis.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Vico 129 (7 June 2012), lot 241.