434, Lot: 324. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (32.5mm, 25.81 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 112-113. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / AQVA/ TRAIANA in two lines in exergue, Genius of the Aqua Traiana reclining left under arched and ornamented grotto supported by two columns, holding reed and leaning on urn from which water flows. RIC II 607; Woytek 448b; Banti 18. VF, dark brown patina, earthen encrustation, shallow cleaning scratches, scrape on reverse.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 297 (27 February 2013), lot 392.

The Aqua Traiana was dedicated in AD 109 and supplied water to the expanding trans-Tiber (west bank) suburbs of Rome.