420, Lot: 455. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.24 g, 8h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 107. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / S • P • Q • R/ OPTIMO/ PRINCIPI in three lines within oak wreath. RIC II 150; Allen, The Gold Coinage of Trajan Dated COS V in AJN 19 (2007), series 3₂.IX.23a (O58/ix12, this coin cited); Woytek 224f; Calicó 1121. VF, numerous marks and dings, wavy flan.

Ex Coin Galleries (29 April 1976), lot 4.