brm_305774 - TRAJANUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 310.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 310.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 108
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,46 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers de haut relief et de style fin. Patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l'épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Traiano Augusti Germanico Dacico Pontifico Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate”, (À l'empereur Trajan auguste germanique dacique, grand pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) marchant à gauche sur des boucliers, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Consul quintum Pater Patriæ Senatus Populusque Romanus Optimo Principi”, (Consul pour la cinquième fois, père de la patrie, le Sénat et le Peuple romain, au meilleur des princes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Grand pan de paludamentum visible de chaque côté. Ce type est beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent croire les différents ouvrages. H. Cohen ne s'était pas trompé en cotant ce denier 10 francs or contre 2 pour les autres deniers avec le type à la victoire.
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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