v53_0290 - TRAJANUS Semis, (PB, Æ 18)
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Semis, (PB, Æ 18)
Date: 101
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait magnifique de Trajan. Représentation inhabituelle du revers. Très jolie patine vert foncé, légèrement écaillée au revers. Conserve une partie du brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Nerva Traianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S|C.
Reverse description : Statue d'Hercule debout de face posée sur une base, tenant la massue de la main droite et la léonté de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Senatus Consulto”, (avec l’accord du Sénat).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3. C’est une émission spéciale ne comprenant que des quinaires d’argent, des semis et des quadrans. Ce type est d’ailleurs décrit par D. Sear comme un quadrans (RCV. 3245).
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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