TRAJAN SILVER DENARIUS – DACIAN WARS COLUMN ISSUE WITH 19th CENTURY PROVENANCE – CHOICE VF STAR NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN (Inv. 21345)

$3,500.00

21345. ROMAN EMPIRE. TRAJAN, AD 98–117.
Silver Denarius, 3.34 g, 20 mm. Issue of Rome, ca. AD 113–114.
Obv. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate draped bust right. Rev. S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIP[I], Trajan’s Column with statue of Trajan on top.
RIC II 292; Woytek 425v; cf. Elkins, Monuments in Miniature:Architecture on Roman Coinage, fig. 121 (for rev. type).
Ex Southern Collector; acquired from Vilmar Numismatics in 2012 (inv. 5562); ex Berlin Surgeon, Hirsch 279, 2/8/2012, lot 2401, “acquired before 1895.”
NGC CHOICE VF STAR, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, “acquired before 1895” provenance noted on the label.

This coin resurfaced in 2012 after being in a German private collection for over a century. The collector was a Berlin surgeon who served as the personal physician of Prince Charles of Prussia and in this capacity traveled several times to Italy where his enthusiasm for numismatics flourished. He began to collect in the 1870s and died in 1895, so the coins were acquired in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.