Triton XXII, Lot: 1068. Estimate $7500. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (20mm, 6.75 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck late AD 114-early 115. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R, Jupiter, naked except for cloak on right and left arms, standing left, holding scepter in left hand, and thunderbolt in right, protecting Trajan, togate, standing to lower left, holding laurel branch in right hand. RIC II 336 var. (bust not cuirassed); Beckmann, Trajan, Group D (dies d69/J4); Woytek 512f; Strack 229; Calicó 1065; BMCRE 533; BN 814-6 var. (pellets in rev. legend); Biaggi 515. Good VF, shallow scrape near edge on reverse.

From the Fendi Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 100 (7 October 2015), lot 1861.