Triton XXI, Lot: 750. Estimate $10000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.29 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, Ceres, draped, wearing wreath of grain ears, standing left, holding grain ears pointed downward in right hand and long vertical torch in left. RIC II 109 var. (bust type); Woytek 291f; Strack 146β; Calicó 996a (same rev. die as illustration); BMCRE 258-60; BN 413-5; Biaggi 469 var. (break in rev. legend). Near EF, lightly toned, underlying luster.