Watch List notes:

Trajan AV Aureus. Rome, AD 107-108. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate bust to right, wearing aegis on far shoulder / COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC in four lines within wreath. RIC II 148 var. (bust type); C. 101 var. (same); BMCRE 371 var. (same); Woytek 262c; Calicó 1013 var. (same). 7.14g, 19mm, 7h.

Near Extremely Fine. Exceedingly Rare with this bust type; unrecorded in Calicó, seemingly one of just four known examples and the first to come to auction in at least twenty years.

From the collection of Z.P., Austria.