Lustrous Trajan Aureus

5656784.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.36 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 104/5-107. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Trajan, bareheaded and in military dress, with cloak flying behind him, on horse riding right, thrusting spear with right hand at Dacian falling on left knee, right, looking back left, holding out hands in attitude of alarm. RIC II 209; Allen Series 3₁, Type VI (dies –/vi.11 [unlisted obv. die]); Woytek 202cB²; Strack 80; Calicó 1109; BMCRE 245 note; BN 365 (photo switched with 364 in plates); Biaggi 538. Lustrous, small flan flaw and flat spot on obverse, tiny flat spot on edge. Near EF.

Ex Dr. Michael Rogers Collection (Part II, Stack’s Bowers Galleries, 14 January 2022), lot 3124; Stack’s (4 December 2001), lot 25; Numismatica Ars Classica 9 (16 April 1996), lot 858; Numismatica Ars Classica 7 (2 March 1994), lot 725; Dr. Bernard Jean Collection (Part 1, Bourgey, 21 June 1992), lot 27.