Ex Biaggi de Blasys and Platt Hall

Triton XIX, Lot: 2188. Estimate $20000. Sold for $32500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.22 g, 7h). Restitution issue of Julius Caesar. Rome mint. Struck circa AD 107 or 112/113. DIVVS IVLIVS, laureate head of Caesar right / IMP CAES TRAIAN AVG GER DAC P P REST, Pax-Nemesis, winged and draped, advancing right, right hand holding out fold of drapery below chin, left hand holding winged caduceus, pointing down at erect snake, gliding right. RIC II 815; Woytek 852 (this coin referenced); Komnick 54.0; Calicó 48 (this coin illustrated); Biaggi 35 (this coin); BMCRE 698. VF, a few marks. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 49, 21 October 2008), lot 203; Henry Platt Hall Collection (Part I, Glendining's, 19 July 1950), lot 614.