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Auction 38E  5 March 2017
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Lot 253

Starting price: 500 EUR
Price realized: 650 EUR
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Trajan (98-117). AE Sestertius, 103-111 AD. Obv. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC PM TR P COS V PP. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis. Rev. SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI SC (in exergue). Triumphal arch, with massive side structures decorated with panels in basrelief; above opening, triangular tympanum on which is Jupiter, standing; on frieze, I.O.M.; the whole surmounted by six-horse chariot driven by two Victories. RIC 572. C. 547 (Fr. 40). AE. g. 24.51 mm. 34.20 RR. Good VF/VF. This building is sometimes described as facade of temple (vid Cohen). That it portrays the triumphal arch at the entrance of Trajan's Forum seems far more probable.
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