Triton XIV, Lot: 704. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ As (27mm, 12.79 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 114-116. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust right / SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS, S C across field, Victory, draped, advancing right, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond in left. RIC II 675; MIR 14, 540v; Strack 456; BMCRE 1031; BN -. EF, dark green patina.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman.

Parthian interference in Armenia prompted Trajan to declare war against their king, Osroes I, in AD 114. He quickly re-established Roman control of Armenia, forced the submission of Osrhoene, and in AD 116 took Mesopotamia by defeating Osroes I. Rather than pursuing the Parthians into Iran, Trajan set up a pro-Roman Parthian "buffer state" in Mesopotamia under a puppet-king appointed by Trajan, Parthamaspates. This Victory type is one of many from this period of Trajan’s coinage that commemorates these exploits in the East.