Trajan AV Aureus. Rome, AD 107-108. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate bust to right, wearing large aegis / COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, eagle, with open wings and head to left, standing facing on thunderbolt. RIC II 144 var. (draped and cuirassed); C. 96 var. (same); BMCRE 351-353 var. (same); BN 251; Woytek 261r; Calicó 1009 var. (draped and cuirassed). 7.29g, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare with this variant bust type, no other examples offered at auction in the past 20 years.
From the Kingsdown Collection.