v38_0550 - TRAJANUS Dupondius, (MB, Æ 27)
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
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Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 27)
Date: 101
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,09 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait avec un coup sur la joue. Revers de haut relief et de joli style. Patine marron foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM P M.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Pontifex Maximus”, (L'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste, germanique grand pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT - COS IIII P P// S C.
Reverse description : Abundantia (l'Abondance) drapée, assise à gauche sur un siège formé de deux cornes d'abondance, tenant un sceptre de la main droite, le coude gauche appuyé sur son siège.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate Consul quartum Pater Patriæ”, (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la quatrième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Portrait massif du début du règne. Buste drapé sur l’épaule avec le paludamentum visible de chaque côté du cou. Ce type de buste semble beaucoup plus rare et n’avoir pas été signalé.
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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