93, Lot: 102. Estimate $300. Sold for $205. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.09 gm). Struck circa 107-111 AD. Laureate head right / View of the Circus Maximus, showing a colonnaded front (the Duodecim Portae), with arched gateway surmounted by facing quadriga, on right, a similar arch with quadriga, and another arch surmounted by quadriga facing right, temple of Sol along back wall; within from left to right, meta, equestrian statue of Trajan, obelisk of Augustus, shrine of Cybele, and a second meta. RIC II 571; Cohen 545. Fair, brown patina, fields smoothed. Very rare. From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Hans Schulman (7-9 July 1970), lot 470.