Trajan AV Aureus. Rome, AD 103-107. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P

Trajan AV Aureus. Rome, AD 103-107. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, emperor standing in slow triumphal quadriga, advancing to left, holding branch and eagle-tipped sceptre. RIC II 207 var. (bust type); C. 493 var. (same); BMCRE 247; Woytek 195bA; Biaggi 535 var. (same); Calicó 1101 var. (same). 7.26g, 18mm, 6h.



Very Fine. Exceedingly rare with this bust type; not recorded in either RIC or Calicó, the first example to come to auction in at least twenty years.



From the Pinewood Collection.