401, Lot: 667. Estimate $100. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 97-117. Æ Cast “Sestertius” (35mm, 24.47 g, 12h). Paduan type. Later cast after Giovanni da Cavino, 1500-1570. Laureate bust right / View of the Circus Maximus. Johnson & Martini –; Klawans –. VF, brown surfaces with orichalcum highlights. Aftercast.

Although this issue does not appear in the corpus of known Cavino’s work, the style and fabric suggests the it belongs to a member of his school, if not the artist himself.