Watch List notes:

Trajan, 98-117. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 33 mm, 26.88 g, 6 h), Rome, 103-107. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P Laureate head of Trajan to right, with slight drapery on his left shoulder. Rev. S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI / S - C Pax standing front, head to left, holding olive-branch in her right hand and cornucopiae in her left, placing her right foot on half-length Dacian bust to left. BMC 800. Cohen 407. RIC 503 var. (differing bust type). Woytek 200bA-1.3 and pl. 36 (this coin). An excellent piece with a bold early style portrait and an impressive pedigree. Minor smoothing, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From the collection of Dipl.-Ing. Adrian Lang, ex Rauch 87, 8 December 2010, 437 and Heritage 686, 30 May 2008, 50119, and from the collections of Hall Park McCullough, Stack's, 20 November 1967, 1212 and M. P. Vautier & Prof. M. Collignon, Naville II, 12-14 June 1922, 644.