Live auction - bpv_700869 - TRAJANUS Drachme
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Live starting : Type : Drachme
Date: an 12
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Diameter : 34,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan large, centré. Joli revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT TRAIAN SEB GER DAKIK , (Autokrator Traianos Aristos Sebastos Germanikos Dakikos).
Obverse translation : (l’empereur césar Trajan auguste germanique dacique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIB.
Reverse description : Triptolemos dans un bige tiré par des serpents.
Reverse translation : (an 12).
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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