brm_355567 - TRAJANUS Denier
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Price : 195.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: automne 98 - automne 99
Date: 98-99
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,01 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Remarquable tête de Trajan. Revers vigoureux bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
C.206 (2f.) - RIC.1 - BMC/RE.36 - St.26 - H.1/55 - RSC.206 - RCV.3144 var. (180$) - MRK.27 /45-1 - MIR. 14/48 a (33 ex.)
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVA TRAI-AN AVG GERM.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus”, (Imperator césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P. M. TR. P. COS. II P. P.
Reverse description : Abundantia (l’Abondance) drapée assise à gauche sur une chaise curule, formée de deux cornes d’abondance, tenant un bâton de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul iterum Pater Patriæ”, (grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la deuxième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Le portrait de Trajan n’est pas du tout ressemblant. Grosse tête. Rubans de type 3.C’est l’une des dernières émissions taillées au 1/92 L. avant le retour au 1/96 L..
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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