Triton XX, Lot: 719. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.34 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 106-107. IMP TRΛIANO ΛVG GER DΛC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Genius standing facing, head left, draped from the waist down and over his left shoulder, holding patera with his right hand and cornucopia with left; garlanded and lit altar to left. RIC II 183; Woytek 217c; RSC 394a; BMCRE 209; Strack 109. Choice EF, deep cabinet toning. Great metal.

From the Dr. Patrick H. C. Tan Collection; Ex Lanz 66 (22 November 1993), lot 492.