CNG 100, Lot: 1860. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.09 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 113-114. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CONSERVATORI • PATRIS • PATRIAE, Jupiter, naked except for cloak on right and left arms, standing left, holding scepter in left hand, and thunderbolt in right, protecting Trajan, togate, standing to lower left, holding laurel branch in right hand. RIC II 249 var. (not cuirassed); Woytek 428f–2¹ (same rev. die); Strack 203; Calicó 991a; BMCRE 494; BN 736 (same rev. die); Biaggi 467 var. (different drapery). VF.