v41_0517 - TRAJANUS Denier
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 115
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,78 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Emission: 22e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé de Trajan à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Optimo Augusti Germanico Dacico”, (À l'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique, dacique.
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P COS VI - P P S P Q R .
Reverse description : La colonne Trajane, posée sur une base, accostée de deux aigles, surmontée d'une statue de l'empereur tourné à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potesate Consul sextum, Pater Patriæ Senatus Populus Que Romanus”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la sixième fois, père de la patrie, le Sénat et le Peuple romain).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Représentation spectaculaire de l’un des monuments de Rome encore visible aujourd’hui.
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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