Aureus - Trajan P M TR P COS III P P, Roma and Victory

Struck in 100 AD, Trajan's third consulship year, this aureus falls within the earliest phase of his reign — a period when the mint was actively consolidating imagery around his new regime following Nerva's death in 98. The RIC II 39 attribution places it among a tightly defined emission group, and examples are occasionally found with die-link connections to contemporaneous denarii from the same obverse dies, suggesting shared workshop production across denominations.