v21_2476 - TRAJANUS Semis, (PB, Æ 18)
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Semis, (PB, Æ 18)
Date: 105
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,53 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
État de conservation exceptionnel pour ce type de divisionnaire avec un très beau portrait et une très jolie table d’offrande au revers. Magnifique patine vert jade, marbrée de rouge, légèrement écaillée sur les parties les plus en relief
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l'épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Nerva Traianus Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SC À L'EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Table des jeux sur laquelle sont posés un vase et une couronne.
Reverse translation : “Senatus Consulto”, (avec l’accord du Sénat).
Commentary
Poids léger. Pour la plupart des auteurs, cette pièce est un quadrans et pas un semis. Nous préférons maintenir notre classement en rapport avec les semis frappés sous le règne de Néron avec le même type de revers.
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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