CNG 102, Lot: 937. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.20 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 112-113. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Arcus Traiani (triumphal entrance) of the Forum Traiani: hexastyle building façade, surmounted by statue of facing chariot drawn by six horses with three figures to left and right; four statues within arches below; FORVM TRAIAN in exergue. RIC II 255 var. (bust not draped or cuirassed); Woytek 403f; Calicó 1030; BMCRE 510; Biaggi 493 var. (obv. bust type and quadriga on reverse). Near VF, two scratches in right obverse field.