v45_0334 - TRAJANUS Denier
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 104
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,09 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, légèrement échancré au revers à 3 heures. Très beau portrait réaliste de Trajan. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P 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 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 : Dace assis à droite sur un bouclier, dans l’attitude de la tristesse ; dessous un sabre ou une épée recourbée.
Reverse translation : "Senatus Populusque Romanus Optimo Principi", (Le Sénat et le Peuple romain, au meilleur des princes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 2. Petit pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule. Au revers, il s’agit bien d’un sabre ou d’une épée dace recourbée.
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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