Sale: Triton X, Lot: 615. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (3.07 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 116. IMP CAES NER TRAIAN OPTIM AVG GER DAC PARTHICO, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R, Virtus standing right, left foot set on helmet, holding spear in right hand, parazonium in left. RIC II 353 var. (not cuirassed); Strack 245; RSC 272a; BMCRE 601 . EF, light gray and golden toning. Rare bust type.

Only the British Museum and Berlin record this bust type.