bpv_450398 - TRAJANUS Assarion
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Assarion
Date: an 215
Mint name / Town : Ascalon, Judée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 13,50 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, un peu court sur la légende de droit. Très jolie tête de Trajan au droit stylisée. Joli revers. Belle patine verte
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Tom Vossen
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : SEBAS-TOS, (Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : La déesse d’Ascalon (Tyché) debout à gauche sur une proue de navire à gauche, tenant l’étendard de la main droite et l’asphlaton (aplustre) de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, un autel et dans celui de droite, une colombe à gauche ; au-dessous, la date.
Reverse legend : ASKA-L-W/ IS
Reverse translation : (Ascalon/ an 210).
Commentary
Au revers la déesse qui est parfois assimilée à Decerto tient bien un étendard plutôt qu’un trident. Il faut plutôt y voir la Tyche d’Ascalon, liée à une victoire navale qui permit à la cité de s’émanciper du joug Séleucide et lui permit de gagner son autonomie. Les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage ont recensé 22 exemplaires avec un poids moyen de 22,11 g.
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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