v38_0544 - TRAJANUS Denier
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 108
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,05 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 15e
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale. Très beau portrait. Revers inhabituel. Recouvert d’une épaisse patine grise de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXVIII, n° 173
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l'épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Traiano Augusti Germanico Dacico Pontifico Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate”, (À l'empereur Trajan auguste germanique dacique, grand pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) marchant à gauche sur des boucliers, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Consul quintum Pater Patriæ Senatus Populusque Romanus Optimo Principi”, (Consul pour la cinquième fois, père de la patrie, le Sénat et le Peuple romain, au meilleur des princes).
Commentary
Ce type est beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent croire les différents ouvrages. H. Cohen ne s'était pas trompé en cotant ce denier 10 francs or contre 2 pour les autres deniers avec le type à la victoire.
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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