Triton XVIII, Lot: 1072. Estimate $500. Sold for $1550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.42 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck mid AD 107-108. IMP TRAIANO ΛVG GER DΛC P M TR P, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, trophy on tree stump with one round shield, two hexagonal shields; at base, two javelins, two shields, and a sword. RIC II 147; Woytek 268bC-1; Strack 138δ1; RSC 98; BMCRE 358 and 362. EF. toned.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Kurt P Wyprächtiger Collection; Sternberg [III] (29 November 1974), lot 66.