Triton XIX, Lot: 524. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.22 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 103-107. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / S • P • Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Trajan standing left in slow triumphal quadriga left, holding branch in right hand and eagle-tipped scepter in left; on side of car, figures of Victory and Dacian(?). RIC II 207 var. (bust type); Woytek 195cB (same rev. die); Strack 78 var. (same); Calicó 1101a (same obv. die); BMCRE 248; BN 194 var. (same); Biaggi 535 var. (same). VF, toned. Extremely rare variety of a very rare reverse type. Apparently the finest known with this reverse and bust type.