397, Lot: 571. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.35 g, 6h). Contemporary imitation. IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate head right / P M TR P COS II P P, Victory seated left, holding wreath and palm frond. For prototype: RIC II 10; Woytek 62a; RSC 213. Good VF, toned.
From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.22472.
The engraver has replaced the patera held in Victory’s extended hand on the prototype with a wreath.