Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 25.43 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa mid AD 107-110. Near VF.

Triton XXIX – Session 6
Lot: 6265. Estimated: $ 500

Roman Imperial, Bronze

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Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 25.43 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa mid AD 107-110. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Arched, single-span bridge with seven posts across Danube River; single-bay arches at either end, surmounted by statues; boat sailing left in river below. RIC II 569; Woytek 314bD; Banti 262; cf. Elkins, Monuments, Figure 117 (for rev. type). Green-brown patina, marks, smoothing, tooling, minor edge mark. Near VF.

From the David Chapman Collection. Ex Clarence and Helen Zaar Maritime Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 87, 18 May 2011), lot 995.

The bridge on the reverse of this coin is generally thought to be that constructed across the Danube by Trajan’s architect, Apollodorus of Damascus, in AD 104. There is good circumstantial evidence for this. The date range for this coin’s issue is closely contemporary with the date of the bridge’s construction and would fit in well programmatically with those war-related issues of the same time frame.

Closing Date and Time: 22 January 2026 at 11:28:00 ET.



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