v24_0330 - TRAJANUS Semis d’orichalque, (PB, Æ 20)
MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 100.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 100.00 €
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 100.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 100.00 €
Type : Semis d’orichalque, (PB, Æ 20)
Date: 116
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie, Antioche (Antiochia ad Orontem)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,68 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Patine marron foncé. Flan légèrement bombé. Divisionnaire rare
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIM AVG GERM .
Obverse description : Grand buste radié et drapé de Trajan à droite, vu de trois quarts à droite (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Optimo Augusti Germanico", (À l'empereur césar Nerva Trajan, le meilleur, auguste, germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DAC PARTHICO P M TR POT XX COS VI PP.
Reverse description : S.C dans une couronne de chêne.
Reverse translation : "Dacico Parthico Pontifico Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate vicesim0 Consule sexto Patri Patriæ" (au dacique, parthique, grand pontife, revêtu de la vingtième puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la sixième fois, père de la patrie).
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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