brm_390108 - TRAJANUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 107
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,19 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire parfaitement centré avec un rare buste pour Trajan. Beau revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V PP.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Trajan à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Traiano Augusto Germanico Dacico Pontifico Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consuli quinto Patri Patriæ”, (À l’empereur Trajan auguste germanique dacique grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la cinquième fois père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S.P.Q.R. OPTIMO PRINCIPI.
Reverse description : Mars casqué et vêtu militairement debout de face, la tête tournée à droite, tenant une longue haste de la main droite et un bouclier de la gauche, reposant sur un Dace à genoux.
Reverse translation : “Senatus Populus Que Romanus Optimo Principi”, (le Sénat et le Peuple romain au meilleur des princes).
Commentary
Rare représentation au revers ! Egide largement visible sur le buste.
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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