bpv_947525 - TRAJANUS Drachme
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Type : Drachme
Date: 100
Mint name / Town : Cyrénaïque, Cyrène
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,75 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Deux portraits finement détaillés. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT KAIS NER TRAIAN SEB GERM, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Neruaos Traianos Sebastos Germanikos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête de Zeus-Ammon à droite.
Reverse legend : DHMARC EX UPAT G
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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