315, Lot: 416. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.44 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 112-113. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / VIA TRAIANA in exergue, the Via Traiana reclining left on rock outcropping, head right, supporting wheel set on knee with right hand, holding branch in left. RIC II 266; Woytek 398b; RSC 648. Good Fine.

Ex Earl Victor Tuttle Collection (Bowers & Ruddy, 15 June 1981), lot 25.

The Via Traiana was a Roman road that ran from Brindisium to Beneventum, serving as an important link between Rome and the East. Its construction was begun in AD 109 and completed in AD 113 at Trajan’s own expense.