Triton XX, Lot: 718. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.00 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 104/5-107. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / S • P • Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Trajan, bareheaded, in military dress, with cloak flying behind him, on horse prancing right, brandishing javelin in raised right hand; to right, Dacian, bare to waist, falling right on left knee, looking left, holding out hands in attitude of alarm. RIC II 208-9 var. (bust type); Woytek 202f² (same rev. die as illustration); Strack 80β; Calicó 1107a; BMCRE 246; BN 241; Biaggi 537 var. (portrait type). Good VF, a few short, shallow scratches on reverse.