Trajan AE As, Rome. 26 mm. Struck AD 98-99. 9.71 g.

Obv: IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM P M, laureate head right, with aegis.
Rev:  TR POT COS II P P, Victory walking left, holding 
palm-branch and shield inscribed SPQR.

RIC 402 (aegis not listed); Cohen 617 (ditto); Sear 3242 var.

With permission of Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, May 2005.