Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1455. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (7.26 g, 7h). Struck AD 115-116. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust, seen from behind / Salus seated left, holding patera over flaming altar around which snake is coiled. RIC II 368 var. (no cuirass); Calicó 1086. EF, underlying lustre, areas of die rust on obverse, die break on reverse.