Details
LOT 2866
Trajan AR Denarius. AD 98-117.
Rome mint; struck AD 108-109. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, Aequitas standing to left, holding scales with right hand and cornucopiae with left. RIC II p. XIV, addenda to p.252; BMCRE 281; Woytek 278b; RSC 85. Very Fine.(3.02gr, 20mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Ex Stocker collection, Kent, UK, 1955-early 2000s.
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