ExVermeule and Ryan Collections

419, Lot: 375. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ As (29.3mm, 10.30 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 112/3-114. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Trajan's Column: column surmounted by statue of Trajan standing left, holding patera and scepter, and set on podium decorated with eagles. RIC II 600 var. (bust with slight drapery); Woytek 474f (this coin cited). VF, dark green and brown patina, some smoothing and roughness.

From the D. C. Kopen Collection. Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 121; V.J.E. Ryan Collection (Part V, Glendining’s, 2 April 1952), lot 2770 (part of); Münzhandlung Basel 1 (28 June 1934), lot 687.