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Triton XVII Sessions 1 & 2  7 January 2014
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Lot 677

Estimate: 5000 USD
Price realized: 4250 USD
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Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (26mm, 27.61 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 106-107. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate heroic bust left, slight drapery / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C across field, Ceres standing left, holding grain ears over modius in right hand, long torch in left. RIC II 478 var. (bust type); Woytek 240q; Banti 117; NAC 52, lot 412 (same obv. die). Good VF, green and brown patina, light smoothing, patina retouched in right field of obverse, reverse double struck. Magnificent and extremely rare bust type.

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