v55_0144 - TRAJANUS Dupondius, (MB, Æ 26)
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 225.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 451.00 €
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 225.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 451.00 €
Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 26)
Date: émission spéciale
Date: 113
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,68 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Trajan. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine vert olive foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
C.165 - RIC.629 a - BMC/RE.- p. 210 - HCC.- var. - RCV.3217 var. (450$) - MRK.- - H.1/603 - MIR. 14/484 v
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé de Trajan à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Optimo Augusti Germanico Dacico Pontifici Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consuli sexto Patri Patriæ”, (À l'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique, dacique, grand pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la sixième fois père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FORTVNAE REDVCI/ -|-// SC.
Reverse description : Fortuna (la Fortune) assise à gauche, tenant un gouvernail de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Fortunæ Reduci”, (Au retour de la Fortune).
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce dupondius appartient à une émission spéciale fabriquée à l’occasion des vœux émis pour le retour de l’empereur.
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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