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Auction XXIII  24-25 Mar 2022
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Lot 920

Estimate: 5000 GBP
Price realized: 3600 GBP
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Trajan Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 104-107. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate head to left / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Pax, draped, standing to left, holding branch downwards in right hand and cornucopiae in left, right foot treading down bust of fallen Dacian; S-C across fields. RIC II 506; C. 409; Lacourt I, Ia1, pl. 2, 1 (this coin); Woytek 200o-1 (same obv. die); BMCRE 803 (same obv. die). 28.68g, 34mm, 6h.

Good Extremely Fine; a perfectly centered specimen featuring a handsome portrait and a beautiful green patina, lightly smoothed in fields. Extremely Rare; seemingly the finest of fewer than five known examples.

This coin published in J. Lacourt, Sesterces des Antonins, Volume I - Nerva - Trajan (France, 2022);
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 59, 4 April 2011, lot 967.
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