203, Lot: 444. Estimate $150. Sold for $343. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.22 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 116. Laureate and draped bust right / Providentia standing left, holding scepter, pointing at globe to feet at left. RIC II 364 var. (obv. legend); RSC 315 var. (same). Good VF, toned.

Ex The Numismatic Auction Ltd. 1 (1 December 1982), lot 237.

An error on the part of the engraver, the obverse legend reads PARTHICA instead of PARTHICO.