147, Lot: 232. Estimate $500. Sold for $864. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.45 g). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 103-111. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC II 519. Good VF, green patina, light smoothing, small pit in obverse legend about 10 o’clock.