01f Traian aureus

Ruler:  Traian,  AD 98-117

Obverse:  IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate and draped bust right.

Reverse: PM TR P COS IIII P P, Trajan, naked but for cloak hanging down on left side, standing left, holding spear and crowning a trophy which is resting on a sitting Dacian, who is raising his right hand in supplication

Mint: AD 101-102, Rome.

Denomination: Aureus

Weight: 

Reference: RIC 71; BMCRE 135; D'Amécourt coll. 201; Paris 114, Calico 1059; Woytek 120f 

Note: Extremely rare! Only the 5th known example; second one in private hands and the only one to have appeared on market since Vinchon auction in 1986.  Only this one example is on pro.coinarchives.com. Woytek cites 4 other examples, including two in the British Museum:  

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1896-0608-22

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1912-0607-107

One example is in the Brussels Museum and one example ex Vinchon auction, 3.2.1986, lot 58.

Woytek notes three additional examples of this exceedingly rare reverse type under no. 120c (but with a different bust ) in Paris and Madrid museums and the Trier hoard:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier_Gold_Hoard

So only 8 Trajan aurei with this reverse type (all types of busts included) are known in total !

Collezione : 18b Roman Aurei