v45_0336 - TRAJANUS Denier
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 109
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 16e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Trajan au droit. Revers de style fin inhabituel. Patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P.
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Traiano Augusto Germanico Dacico Pontifici 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 : Felicitas (la Félicité) debout à gauche, tenant de la main droite un caducée et le bras gauche appuyé sur une colonne.
Reverse translation : "Consul Quintum Pater Patriæ Senatus Populus Que Romanus Optimo Principi" (Consul pour la cinquième fois, père de la patrie, le Sénat et le Peuple romain, au meilleur des princes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 2. Grand buste laissant voir la plus grande partie du cou. Revers inhabituel. C’est la première que nous proposons ce type à la vente qui semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer 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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