v27_0675 - TRAJANUS Dupondius, (MB, Æ 29)
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 510.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 951.00 €
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 510.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 951.00 €
Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 29)
Date: 107
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 13,34 g.
Coments on the condition:
Superbe portrait d’un très joli style et de haut relief. Joli revers, légèrement piqué à 12 heures. Belle et épaisse patine noire aux reflets brillants
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O2).
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Augusti Germanico Dacico Pontifico Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consuli quinto Patri Patriæ”, (À l'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique dacique, grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la cinquième fois, père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI/ S C.
Reverse description : Trajan debout à gauche, tenant une lance renversée, couronné par la Victoire, tenant une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Senatus Populus que Romanus Optimo Principi”, (Le Sénat et le Peuple romain, au meilleur des princes).
Commentary
La qualité de gravure du portrait est extraordinaire sur ce dupondius, œuvre d’un graveur d’exception.
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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