Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1426. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $204. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 Æ As (12.14 gm). Struck circa 103-111 AD. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC II 519; BMCRE 935; cf. Cohen 460. Nice VF, black surfaces, metal showing at high points, even light roughness. ($150)