brm_398903 - TRAJANUS As
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : As
Date: 116
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait inhabituel de Trajan. Revers souligné. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM .
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Trajan à droite, l’égide sur l’épaule (O4).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Optimo Augusti Germanico", (À l'empereur césar Nerva Trajan, le meilleur, auguste, germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DAC PARTHICO P M TR POT XX COS VI PP/ S C.
Reverse description : S.C souligné dans une couronne de laurier fermée.
Reverse translation : "Dacico Parthico Pontifico Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate vicesimo Consule sexto Patri Patriæ" (au dacique, parthique, grand pontife, revêtu de la vingtième puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la sixième fois, père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. As en orichalque de petit module. Émission coloniale. Bien que radié, nous sommes bien en présence d’un as. Très intéressante variante avec le SC souligné.
Historical background
TRAJANUS
(27/10/97-8/08/117)
Augustus
Trajan was born on September 18, 53 in Italica, near Seville in Spain, like his pupil Hadrian. He belongs to a family of settlers settled in Spain. After a brilliant military career under the Flavians, he was consul in 91 and legate of Germania Superior when he was adopted by Nerva in 97 to succeed him. After the death of the latter, he becomes august. His reign will be devoted to numerous military campaigns against the Germans on the Rhine limes, which earned him the title of Germanicus. Then, he led two Dacian wars against Decebalus which ended with the annexation of Dacia. Trajan prepares a campaign against the Parthians, the turbulent and powerful neighbors to the east. He left Rome for the East and established his headquarters in Antioch before invading the Parthian kingdom. He will go as far as Ctesiphon (Seleucia on the Tigris). When he died on August 8, 117, the Empire was at its peak and experienced its greatest territorial expansion..
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