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MARCUS ULPIUS NERVA TRAJANUS - 98-117A.D.
Bronze Sestertius (36mm, 25.35 gm.) Rome: 111 A.D. Very Rare
Reference: RIC II 463; Woytek 359d; Banti 15.
 Laureate bust right, slight drapery.
AQVA/TRAIANA in two lines in exergue, Genius of the Aqua Traiana reclining left  under arched and ornamented grotto supported by two columns, holding reed and  leaning on urn from which water flows. .

The Aqua Traiana was dedicated in AD 109 and supplied water to the expanding  trans-Tiber (west bank) suburbs of Rome. The coin depicts the castellum, or  waterworks, associated with the terminal of the aqueduct, and its statue of the  river Tiber.