Watch List notes:

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.07 g, 6h). "Parthia Capta" commemorative. Rome mint. Struck 20 February-autumn 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 around, PARTHIΛ CΛPTΛ in exergue, two Parthian captives seated on ground left and right, back to back, with trophy between them: each captive is seated on a shield, resting head on hand, which is propped on knee: in front of each captive, bow in bow case erect. RIC II 324; Beckmann, Trajan, Group E (dies e5/PC4); Woytek 560f2 (same rev. die); Strack 247β; Calicó 1035; BMCRE 603-5; BN 863; Biaggi 496; Jameson –; Mazzini 184. Toned. VF.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.