Trajan AR Denarius. Rome, AD 112-114. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Annona standing facing, head to left, holding corn ears and cornucopiae, child at foot to left, head to right; ALIM ITAL in exergue. RIC II 243; Strack 173; MIR 394b; BMCRE 472; RSC 9. 3.22g, 18mm, 8h.
Extremely Fine; lustrous metal beneath old cabinet tone.
Ex Collection of a Hanseatic Romanophile;
Ex Hauck & Aufhäuser, Auction 18, 5 October 2004, lot 458.