Trajan.
AD 98-117. AR Quinarius (14mm, 1.57 g, 8h). Rome mint. Struck mid-AD 107-111. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate bust right, slight drapery on shoulder / COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, Victory seated left, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond in left. RIC II 134 var. (no drapery); Woytek 374b, Portraittyp C (this coin cited); Strack 129α; King 9-10; RSC 73; BMCRE 345-6; BN 280. EF, attractively toned, light scrapes on reverse at 4 o’clock. Rare.
Ex A. Lynn Collection (Helios 4, 14 October 2009), lot 364; Numismatica Ars Classica 25 (25 June 2003), lot 440.
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