Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 27.25 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 101-102. IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM P M, laureate bust right, slight drapery / TR • POT • COS • IIII • P • P, Pax seated left, holding olive branch and scepter. RIC II 432 var. (bust type); Woytek 107b; Banti 337; BMCRE 745 note; BN 144-5; Klawans, Reading and Dating Roman Imperial Coins, plate coin. Attractive brown patina. EF.
From the Menlo Park Collection. Ex A. Lynn Collection (Manhatten Sale I, 5 January 2010), lot 260; Sotheby's New York (19 December 1998), lot 37; Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack's, 1 May 1980), lot 486 (realized $7,750).