Trajan, AV aureus, Rome, AD 111. 7.18 g.

IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V DES VI, laureate, 
draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from the back.
SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI around, ALIM ITAL, Trajan, togate, 
standing half left, holding scroll in left hand and 
extending right to two children standing right at foot.

RIC 230; Cohen 16; Calico 985; BMC p. 88 note; Hill 534. 

With permission of Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG - 
Auction 168, Lot 7735, March 2010.

Note re. the reverse: Trajan continued the system set 
up by Nerva to support and feed the poor children of Italy.
Hence the reverse legend part "ALIM(enta) ITAL(iae)".