v53_0286 - TRAJANUS Dupondius, (MB, Æ 28)
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 28)
Date: 113
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,49 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince, ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau buste de Trajan, de haut relief. Joli revers de style fin. Magnifique patine vert jade, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P.
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé de Trajan à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Caesari Nervæ Traiano Augusti Germanico Dacico Pontifico Maximo Tribunicia Potestate Consulo Sextum 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 : FELICITAS AVGVST/ S|C.
Reverse description : Felicitas (La Félicité) debout à gauche tenant un caducée dans la main droite et une corne d'abondance dans le bras gauche.
Reverse translation : "Felicitas Augusti" (la Félicité de l'Auguste).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3. C’est une émission spéciale pour le monnayage de bronze (sesterce, dupondius et as) lié au départ de l’empereur pour la campagne parthique.
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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