Danube Reclining Reverse

444, Lot: 354. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.17 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 107-108. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / DΛNVVIVS in exergue, Danube reclining left on rocks, head right, cloak floating above, hand on prow of ship and resting arm on urn. RIC II 100; Woytek 277b; RSC 136. VF, lightly toned, some faint hairlines under tone on reverse.

Ex Dr. Klaus Berthold Collection; Gorny & Mosch 101 (6 March 2000), lot 788.