CNG 99, Lot: 618. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.10 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 107-108. 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, Hercules standing left, holding cup over lighted and garlanded altar to left, and holding club and lion skin. Cf. RIC II 112; Woytek 263f; Strack 135β; Calicó 999 = Biaggi 470; BMCRE 263 var. (not cuirassed); BN 250 var. (bust type). VF.