v36_0423 - TRAJANUS Denier
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 117
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Usure régulière, parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Beaux portraits. Une fine patine recouvre l’exemplaire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NER TRAIAN OPTIM AVG GERM DAC.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé de Trajan à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Caesari Nervæ Traiano Optimo Augusto Germanico Dacico" , (A l'empereur César Nerva Trajan, le Meilleur, Germanique, Dacique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R.
Reverse description : Buste radié et drapé de Sol à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A01).
Reverse translation : "Parthico Pontifico Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consulo Sexti Patri Patriæ Senatus Populus Que Romanus" (au Parthique, grand pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la sixième fois, père de la patrie, au nom du Sénat et du Peuple romain).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ce denier commémore la victoire parthique de l’empereur.
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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