v32_0207 - TRAJANUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 32)
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
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Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 32)
Date: decennalia
Date: 107
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 21,88 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait expressif. Joli revers de style fin à l’usure régulière. Magnifique patine vert olive clair, légèrement marbrée de rouge avec un minuscule petite manque au droit devant le nez
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P.
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O*2°).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Caesari Nervæ Traiano Augusti Germanico Dacico Pontifico Maximo Tribunicia Potestate Consulo quinto 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/ S|C.
Reverse description : Spes (l’Espérance) marchant à gauche, tenant une fleur de la main droite et relevant sa robe de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Senatus Populusque Romanus Optimo Principi", (Le Sénat et le Peuple Romain, au meilleur des Princes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sesterce caractéristique des decennalia en 107. Rubans de type 1.
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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