Triton XXI, Lot: 749. Estimate $4000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.22 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 108-110. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, Arabia, draped, standing left, holding branch in right hand over camel walking left before her and cradling a bundle of canes(?) upright in left arm. RIC II 142 var. (not cuirassed); Woytek 290f
1 (same dies as illustration); Strack 153β; Calicó 1004a; BMCRE 294-5; BN 418-20; Biaggi 474-6. Good VF, toned, minor die break on reverse.