Watch List notes:

Trajan AR Denarius. Rome, circa AD 112-113. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate bust right, drapery on far shoulder / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Trajan riding left on horseback, holding spear and Victory. RIC 291; RSC 497a; BMCRE 445; Woytek 394b. 3.06g, 18mm, 8h.

Near Extremely Fine; ex-jewellery, edges filed, large irregularity on reverse likely caused by heat-expansion of an impurity; pleasant dark toning.

From the collection of a retired Oxford academic.