CNG 105, Lot: 866. Estimate $300. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan, with Trajan Pater. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.13 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 112-113. Laureate bust of Trajan right, slight drapery / DIVVS PATER TRAIAN, Marcus Ulpius Traianus (Trajan’s father) seated left on sella curulis, holding patera and scepter. RIC II 252 var. (bust type); Woytek 406b; RSC 140. Near EF, lightly toned, edge flaw.

From the Collection of a Director. Ex Kunst und Münzen 15 (8 December 1975), lot 573.

Trajan’s forum featured a temple to the emperor’s deified father, situated behind Trajan’s monumental column. Upon Trajan’s death, his body was interred in the base of the column, and the adjacent temple was rededicated to the deceased emperor.