CNG 106, Lot: 735. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.07 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 114-116. • IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC •, laureate bust right, showing bare shoulder and chest, wearing balteus and aegis / P M TR P COS VI • P P S P Q R, FORT RED in exergue, Fortuna, veiled and draped, seated left on chair, holding rudder set on ground and cornucopia. RIC II 321 var. (globe on obv.); Woytek 525t+-1² var. (no stops at beginning and end of obv. legend – same rev. die as illustration); Calicó 1025 var. (same); BMCRE 576, note; cf. BN 808; Biaggi 488 var. (same – same rev. die). VF. Artistic obverse die.