445, Lot: 436. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.65 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 107. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Spes advancing left, holding up flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC II 191; Woytek 230b; RSC 457. Good VF, toned.

From the Ealing Collection, purchased from Spink, October 2001.