v08_0200 - TRAJANUS Denier
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 129.58 €
Estimate : 213.43 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 129.58 €
Estimate : 213.43 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 117
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 750 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,37 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 24e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Champ très légèrement gratté
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 Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Optimo Augusti Germanico Dacico", (À 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 : Felicitas (la Félicité) debout à gauche, tenant un caducée de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Parthico Pontifico Maximo Tribunitiæ Potestate Consulo Sexti Patri Patriæ Senatus Populusque 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).
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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