| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 439 Price realized: 2,400 GBP (Approx. 3,040 USD / 2,799 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Trajan Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 104-107. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate head to left / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Pax, draped, standing to left, holding branch downwards in right hand and cornucopiae in left, right foot treading down bust of fallen Dacian; S-C across fields. RIC II 506; C. 409; Lacourt I, Ia1, pl. 2, 1 (this coin); Woytek 200o-1 (same obv. die); BMCRE 803 (same obv. die). 28.68g, 34mm, 6h. Good Extremely Fine; a perfectly centred specimen featuring a handsome portrait and a beautiful green patina, lightly smoothed in fields. Extremely Rare; seemingly the finest of fewer than five known examples. This coin published in J. Lacourt, Sesterces des Antonins, Volume I - Nerva - Trajan (France, 2022); Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XXIII, 24 March 2022, lot 920; Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 59, 4 April 2011, lot 967. Estimate: 3500 GBP |  |
