Watch List notes:

Lot of three sestertii of Trajan and Hadrian. (0h). . (1) Trajan, 114 AD. 25.32g, 6h. Obv: NER OPTIMO COS VI, Bust laureate, draped right, seen from side. Rx: FORT RED / S C in exergue, SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS around, Fortuna Redux seated left holding rudder and cornucopia. MIR 505v (19 spec.), BM 1026, Paris 847, Cohen 158 (4 Fr.), RIC 652. (2) Trajan, 116-117 AD, 28.37g. 6h. Obv: Long legend including PARTHICO, Bust laureate draped right, seen from side. Rx: ARMENIA ET MESOPOTAMIA IN POTESTATEM P R REDACTAE S C (="Armenia and Mesopotamia placed under the control of the Roman people") Trajan standing left, head right, holding spear and parazonium; at his feet Armenia seated left wearing tiara, flanked by the river gods Tigris and Euphrates, each holding reed and reclining on urn from which water flows. MIR 590v3 (57 spec.), BM 1033, Paris 916, Cohen 39 (20 Fr.), RIC 642. (3) Hadrian, c. 132 AD. 23.63g, 6h. Obv: HADRIANVS - AVG COS III P P Bust laureate, draped right, seen from side. Rx: RESTITVTORI BITHYNIAE around, S C in exergue, Hadrian, on right, standing left raising kneeling Bithynia, who wears crown of towers and holds rudder over shoulder. BM 1803, Cohen 1240 (15 Fr.), RIC 948. Generaly VF, but the two Trajans overcleaned and somewhat tooled

Ex Richard P. Miller Collection; second coin acquired from Gorny & Mosch 186, 8 March 2010, lot 2014