brm_305823 - TRAJANUS Denier
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Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 116
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,402 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier. Très beau portrait de Trajan. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
C.278 (2f.) - RIC.3 - BMC/RE.541 - H.1/710 - RSC.278 - RCV.3150 (200$) - MRK.- /43-2 - MIR. 14/519 v
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NER TRAIAN OPTIM AVG GERM DAC [PARTHICO].
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 Parthico", (À l'empereur césar Nerva Trajan, le meilleur, germanique, dacique, parthique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P - C-OS VI P P S P Q R.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) debout à gauche, tenant un caducée de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Pontifico Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consule Sexto Patri Patriæ Senatus Populus Que Romanus", (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
Semble plus rare que ne le laissent paraître les ouvrages généraux.
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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