Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.17 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa spring AD 113-summer 114. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / S • P • Q • R • OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Bonus Eventus, naked, standing left, holding patera in right hand and two grain ears downward in left; lighted and garlanded altar to left. RIC II 278; Beckmann, Early, Group X (dies – [unlisted obv. die]/BEA2); Woytek 413f (same rev. die as illstration); Calicó 1093; cf. BMCRE 432; BN –; Biaggi 531. In NGC encapsulation 2077477-003, graded Ch XF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5.
From the Grand Haven Collection. Ex Numismatik Naumann 56 (6 August 2017), lot 569; Aurea 79 (20 May 2017), lot 1392.