Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 28.74 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 112/3-114. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Via Traiana reclining left, head right, holding wheel balanced on knee, resting elbow on rock and cradling branch. RIC II 638; Woytek 476c; Banti 349. Rough brown surfaces, graffiti on obverse. Near VF. From the Dr. Michael Slavin Collection, purchased from Michael Godier, 20 March 2001.
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