v38_0542 - TRAJANUS Denier
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 102
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan régulier, bien centré des deux côtés, un peu court sur la légende de revers. Beau portrait massif de Trajan. Revers de style fin. A été nettoyé anciennement. Recouvert d’une fine patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection M. P. de Lorraine
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM.
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Trajan à droite, avec pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus”, (L’empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P. M. TR. P. COS. IIII. P. P..
Reverse description : Victoria (La Victoire) debout de face tournée à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas Consul quartum Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la quatrième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Type avec le pan de paludamentum plutôt que l’égide sur l’épaule (cf. BN/R4., n° 110, pl. 7 et n° 117 ou 120, pl 7).
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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