Details
LOT 3342
Trajan AE Sestertius. AD 114-117. Rome mint.
IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIM AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust to right / SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS, Felicitas standing facing, head to left, holding caduceus and cornucopiae; S C across fields. RIC II 672; Woytek 534v; Banti 106. Very Fine.(26.35gr, 34mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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