434, Lot: 322. Estimate $150. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ As (25mm, 11.86 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 111. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / AQVA/ TRAIANA in two lines in exergue, Genius of the Aqua Traiana reclining left under arched and ornamented grotto supported by two columns, holding reed and leaning on urn from which water flows. RIC II 463; Woytek 361b. VF, black patina. Rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 281 (20 June 2012), lot 316.

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