Watch List notes:

Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.29 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 108-110. IMP • TRAIANO • AVG • GER DAC P M TR P, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COS V P P S • P • Q • R • OPTIMO PRINC, Libertas standing facing, head to left, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC II 123 var. (bust type); Allen Series 42, Type VIII – (dies –/VIII.17 [unlisted obv. die]); Woytek 292f (same rev. die as illustration); Strack 150β; Calicó 1001a; BMCRE 313 (same rev. die); BN 422-4; Biaggi 471; Jameson –; Mazzini 70 v. Lustrous. EF. A powerful portrait.

Ex Triton XXIII (14 January 2020), lot 718.