CNG 96, Lot: 783. Estimate $7500. Sold for $12500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.09 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 107. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / S P Q R/OPTIMO/PRINCIPI in three lines within oak wreath. RIC II 150 var. (bust type); Strack 99 (unrecorded bust type); Woytek 224c; Calicó 1122; BMCRE 253-6 var. (bust type); BN 367-9 var. (bust type); Biaggi 545 var. (bust type). Near EF, toned, traces of deposits. Woytek notes only five examples of this obverse/reverse type.