Watch List notes:

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 24.86 g, 6h). "Dacia Capta" commemorative. Rome mint. Struck circa AD 108-109/110. 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, Dacian, wearing peaked cap and shirt with long sleeves, and breeches, seated left on round shield, right knee drawn up, head resting on right hand, which is propped on right knee, left arm across knee; oblong or hexagonal shield to left and right; to left, trophy, consisting of helmet, cuirass, round and two oblong shields in saltire; at foot of trophy to left, two spears and round shield; to right, curved sword and oblong shield. RIC II 564 var. (bust type); Woytek 326bD3 (this coin); Strack 365α; Banti 244 var. (number and configuration of arms); BMCRE 785-91 var. (same); BN 528-9 var. (same). Glossy green patina, light smoothing. Near EF. Attractive.


From the Jack A. Frazer Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 25 May 2001. Ex Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 533; Numismatica Ars Classica K (30 March 2000), lot 1731; Spink Numismatic Circular LXXXI.1 (January 1973), no. 88; Conte Alessandro Magnaguti Collection (Part III, Santamaria, 26 June 1950), lot 32.