447, Lot: 455. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.11 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 108-110. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC II 123 var. (not cuirassed); Woytek 292f; Calicó 1001; Biaggi 471; Jameson –; Mazzini 70v. A small contact mark on obverse, a few minor edge nicks. VF.