Rare Aqua Traiana As

281, Lot: 316. Estimate $150. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ As (25mm, 11.84 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 111. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Genius of the Aqua Traiana reclining left, holding reed, resting elbow on urn from which water flows; all under an arched grotto. RIC II 463; Woytek 361. VF, black patina. Rare.

The Aqua Traiana was dedicated in AD 109 and supplied water to the expanding trans-Tiber (west bank) suburbs of Rome.