Lot 65
65
Trajan (AD 98-117), Sestertius, 25.1 gms., IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC PM TR P COS VI PP, laureate head right, rev. SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Arabia standing facing, head left, ostrich at her feet, ARAB ADQ in exergue (Cohen 27; BMC 977 note-Cohen described the ostrich reverse which Mattingly dismissed as an error in 1936), uneven brown and green patina, nice very fine, scarce, together with a Billon Tetradrachm of Nero and Divus Augustus, a Dupondius of Hadrian, Sestertii of Severus Alexander and Gordian III, and a small Judaean bronze, average fine to very fine (6)

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Trajan (AD 98-117), Sestertius, 25.1 gms., IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC PM TR P COS VI PP, laureate head right, rev. SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Arabia standing facing, head left, ostrich at her feet, ARAB ADQ in exergue (Cohen 27; BMC 977 note-Cohen described the ostrich reverse which Mattingly dismissed as an error in 1936), uneven brown and green patina, nice very fine, scarce, together with a Billon Tetradrachm of Nero and Divus Augustus, a Dupondius of Hadrian, Sestertii of Severus Alexander and Gordian III, and a small Judaean bronze, average fine to very fine (6)