v23_0395 - TRAJANUS Quinaire
MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Quinaire
Date: 117
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,37 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Frappe faible au revers. Jolie patine avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIM AVG GERM DAC.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé de Trajan à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Traiano Augusto Optimo Germanico Dacico", (À l'empereur Trajan le meilleur auguste germanique dacique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R .
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) marchant à droite, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Parthico Pontifico Maximo Tribunitiæ Potestate Consuli Sexto Senatus Populus Que Romanus Optimo Principi”, (au nom du Sénat et du Peuple romain au meilleur des princes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Souvent quinaires d’or et quinaires d’argent sont frappés avec les mêmes coins et distribués ensemble lors des donativa, mais à différents types d’officiers, de fonctionnaire ou du public en général. À notre quinaire d’argent correspond un quinaire d’or (H.1/ 753).
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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