Trajan, Silver Denarius Capture of Cartagena

Capture of Cartagena

in original dated black oblong case of issue

otherwise good extremely fine and better than the Bentley example

A few light surface marks

to upper right of exergue for designer Benedetto Pistrucci

Trajan, Silver Denarius Capture of CartagenaTrajan (A. D. 98 117), Silver Denarius. Mint of Rome, struck A. D. 112 7. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust facing right, rev. CONSERVATORI PATRIS PATRIAE, Jupiter, naked but for a chlamys, standing left, holding a sceptre and extending his right hand above the smaller figure of Trajan, togate, standing left, holding up a branch, 3. 61g., 7h (RIC 249; C 47). An attractive reverse type, broad flan, nearly extremely