Bertolami Fine Art
Auction 67 11 Jul 2019
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Trajan, Sestertius, Rome, AD 103-104
AE (g 26,62; mm 34; h 7)
Front of the Temple of Jupiter: monumental gateway; on the sides, are various reliefs: biga driven by Victory, aegis, Gigantomachy, arms, and she-wolf suckling twins; the second tier surmounted by a trophy and giant to either side, gateway spandrels with Victories, pediment with Jupiter between two seated figures, panel above pediment inscribed IOM (= Iovi Optimo Maximo), the whole surmounted by six-horse chariot driven by Jupiter and flanked by Victories. RIC 572; C 547.
Very rare, dark patina, good very fine.
Ex Auktion Giessener Münzhandlung 42, München 1988, lot 64; Fritz Rudolf Künker 124, 16 March 2007, lot 9029.
AE (g 26,62; mm 34; h 7)
Front of the Temple of Jupiter: monumental gateway; on the sides, are various reliefs: biga driven by Victory, aegis, Gigantomachy, arms, and she-wolf suckling twins; the second tier surmounted by a trophy and giant to either side, gateway spandrels with Victories, pediment with Jupiter between two seated figures, panel above pediment inscribed IOM (= Iovi Optimo Maximo), the whole surmounted by six-horse chariot driven by Jupiter and flanked by Victories. RIC 572; C 547.
Very rare, dark patina, good very fine.
Ex Auktion Giessener Münzhandlung 42, München 1988, lot 64; Fritz Rudolf Künker 124, 16 March 2007, lot 9029.