Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 594. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (3.42 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 103. IMP NERVA TRAIANVS AVG GER DACICVS, laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / P • M • TR • P • C-OS • V • P • P, Dacian, wearing shirt with long sleeves and breeches, seated right on ground in attitude of mourning before trophy. RIC II 88 var. (bust type); Strack 71 var. (same); RSC 264a; BMCRE 150 var. (same), p. 52 note; BN 169 var. (same). EF, dark brown-gray find patina, traces of porosity, a shallow scratch on reverse beneath tone. Bold portrait.

From the White Mountain Collection.