Trajan AR Tridrachm of Bostra, Arabia. AD 111. AYTOKP KAIC NЄP TPAIANOC CЄB ΓЄPM ΔAK, laureate head to right, drapery over far shoulder / ΔHMAPX EΞ ΥΠATO Є, Arabia standing facing, head left, holding branch and bundle of cinnamon sticks(?); camel at side to left. RPC 4051; Metcalf 2; Sydenham, Caesarea 182. 11.54g, 25mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine; attractive old cabinet tone. One of the finest examples offered at auction in the past 20 years.
Ex Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger, Auction 386,26 April 2006, lot 738.