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LOT 3345
Trajan AE Dupondius. AD 111. Rome mint.
IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, radiate head to right, with slight drapery on left shoulder / S • P • Q • R OPTIMO PRINCIPI • around, S C across fields, ALIM • ITAL in exergue, Abundantia standing facing, head to left, holding two grain ears in her right hand and cornucopia in her left; to left, child, togate, standing facing. RIC II 460 var. (differing bust type); BMC 918 note; Cohen 8 var. (differing bust type); Woytek 355b. Very Fine.(13.56gr, 26mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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