Watch List notes:

Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.36 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 107-108. IMP TRΛIΛNO ΛVG GER DΛC P M TR P, laureate bust right, slight drapery / COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, Trophy of arms set on stump, consisting of helmet at top, with three oval shields; above, two curved swords to left and two spears to right; below, two crossed greaves. RIC II 147a var. (number and configuration of arms); Woytek 269b–2; Strack 141α var. (same); RSC 99 var. (same); BMCRE 355; BN 295 var. (same). Lustrous, traces of deposits on obverse. EF.


From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Pegasi BBS 121 (29 January 2001), lot 286.