CNG 99, Lot: 619. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.18 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 111. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SALVS • GENERIS HVMANI, Salus standing left, foot on globe, holding rudder and sacrificing out of patera over lighted and garlanded altar to left. RIC II 148B var. (bust type); Woytek 351f–12 = Calicó 1087 = Biaggi 528; Strack 164β; BMCRE 410; BN 435. Near EF, lustrous, some scattered marks. Rare reverse type.