CNG 108, Lot: 607. Estimate $750. Sold for $1257. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Dupondius (26mm, 13.01 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 111. Radiate bust right, slight drapery / AQVA/ TRAIANA in two lines in exergue, Genius of the Aqua Traiana, holding reed and leaning on overturned urn, reclining left under arched and ornamented grotto supported by two columns. RIC II 464 var. (bust type); Woytek 360b-2 (this coin referenced). VF, red-brown patina.

Ex Freeman & Sear 12 (28 October 2005), lot 564; Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 1324; Superior (1 October 2001), lot 1134; Hirsch 203 (24 February 1999), lot 556.

The Aqua Traiana was dedicated in AD 109 and supplied water to the expanding Transtiberine (west bank) suburbs of Rome.