Savoca Coins
Online Auction 26 | Silver 14 Oct 2018
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Trajan AD 98-117. Struck circa AD 103-104. Rome
Sestertius Æ
33mm., 24,41g.
IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, slight drapery / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C in exergue, view of the Circus Maximus, showing a colonnaded front, with arch, indicating gateway, surmounted by facing quadriga, on right, and, behind it, higher up, a similar arch with quadriga, and another arch, surmounted by quadriga facing right at extreme left: the sides of the Circus are not seen but the back is indicated by a sweep of colonnades: in the interior is the great obelisk in center, to left and right smaller obelisks.
very fine, tooled and smoothed
Woytek 175b; Strack 391α; Banti 273; BMCRE 853 note; BN 223.
Sestertius Æ
33mm., 24,41g.
IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, slight drapery / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C in exergue, view of the Circus Maximus, showing a colonnaded front, with arch, indicating gateway, surmounted by facing quadriga, on right, and, behind it, higher up, a similar arch with quadriga, and another arch, surmounted by quadriga facing right at extreme left: the sides of the Circus are not seen but the back is indicated by a sweep of colonnades: in the interior is the great obelisk in center, to left and right smaller obelisks.
very fine, tooled and smoothed
Woytek 175b; Strack 391α; Banti 273; BMCRE 853 note; BN 223.