160, Lot: 138. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAPHLAGONIA, Neoclaudiopolis. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ 22mm (5.98 g). Dated CY 107 (AD 101/102). Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / N-EOKLADI-O-PO-LEITWN, shield inscribed DAKI/KOC in two lines, two crossed spears behind; P-Z across field. RG -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; Lindgren -. Fine, dark green patina with some encrustations. Apparently an unrecorded type.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection; Ex Henry Lindgren Collection, 85.

The Senate didn’t award the title Dacicus to Trajan until 103 AD, but the first Dacian campaign ended in 102. On the obverse, Trajan is only called Germanicus, so the inscription on the shield must refer to the campaign, not the title awarded to Trajan in 103.