brm_348964 - TRAJANUS Dupondius
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Dupondius
Date: 107
Mint name / Town : Rome, Decennalia
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,70 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire idéalement centré sur un flan ovale. Joli portrait de haut relief et magnifique revers, servi par une belle patine vert olive
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P.
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Trajan à droite avec l’égide (O*4).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Augusto Germanico Dacico Pontifici Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consule quintum 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// SC.
Reverse description : Trajan, en habits militaires, galopant à droite, terrassant un guerrier dace à droite fuyant.
Reverse translation : “Senatus Populus Que Romanus Optimo Principi”, (au nom du Sénat et du Peuple romain au meilleur des princes).
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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