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109, Lot: 217. Estimate $100.
Sold for $83. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.76 gm, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa 116-117 AD. Laureate head right / Fortuna seated left, holding cornucopiae and rudder set on globe. RIC II 315; BMCRE 634; RSC 150a. VF.

This coin is from the final issue of Trajan's reign, after he ended his campaign against the Parthians. The reverse type on this coin is a standard representation of Fortuna Redux, and was typically employed as a plea to Fortuna to see to the emperor's safe return home from afar. Unfortunately, the elderly Trajan, then in his sixties, died in Selinus in Roman Cilicia enroute back to Rome from the east.