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LOT 2865
Trajan AR Denarius. AD 98-117.
Rome mint; struck AD 116-117. IMP CAES NER TRAIAN OPTIM AVG GERM DAC, laureate and draped bust to right / PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R, Felicitas standing to left, holding caduceus and cornucopiae. RIC II 332; Woytek 570v; BMCRE 627; RSC 191. Near Extremely Fine. Tooled.(3.41gr, 19mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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