Triton XVI, Lot: 1082. Estimate $7500. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.27 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 111. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, ALIM • ITAL in exergue, Trajan, togate, standing left, holding roll in left hand, extending right hand towards boy and girl to left, who stand right, the boy extends left hand up towards Trajan, the girl stretches both hands. RIC II 93 var. (not cuirassed); Woytek 345f; Strack 155; Calicó 984; BMCRE 378-380; BN 427-430. Good VF, toned.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Lanz 135 (21 May 2007), lot 633.