CNG 102, Lot: 936. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.15 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 108-110. IMP TRAINO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC II 123 var. (not cuirassed); Woytek 292f; Calicó 1001a; Biaggi 471. VF, flan flaw at 3 o’clock and scuff at 9 o’clock on the obverse.