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Auction 11  12 January 2014
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Lot 430

Estimate: 900 USD
Price realized: 1100 USD
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Lot of three sestertii of Trajan. . (1) 111 AD. 28.86g, 7h. Obv: COS V, Bust laureate right showing bare chest, fold of cloak on front shoulder and behind neck. Rx: ARAB ADQVIS in exergue, SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI around, S - C across field, Arabia standing right, head left, holding branch over camel at her feet in right hand and conical object in left hand. MIR 363d (3 spec.); bust var. of BM 877, Paris 704, RIC 466, and Cohen 32 (10 Fr.). (2) 112-113 AD. 25.06g, 6h. COS VI, Bust laureate right, fold of cloak on front shoulder and behind neck. Rx: DACIA AV - GVST around, PROVINCIA / S C in exergue, Dacia holding standard seated left on rocks, before her two boys holding wheat ears and bunch of grapes respectively. MIR 467b (19 spec.), BM 960, Paris 766, RIC 621, Cohen 125 var. (12 Fr.). From the same reverse die as MIR 467c, pl. 93. (3) Circa 115 AD. 26.24g, 6h. Obv: NER OPTIMO COS VI, Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right. Rx: IMPERATOR VIII / S C in exergue, The army saluting Trajan "imperator" for the eighth time; Trajan and two officers on platform, lictor standing before, five soldiers and horse with three standards above them represent the army. MIR 548f (5 spec.), pl. 110 (same dies); bust variety of BM 1017, Paris 84, RIC 655, and Cohen 176 (25 Fr.). The third coin lightly, the second heavily tooled. Generally VF

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