v38_0549 - TRAJANUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 707.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 806.00 €
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 707.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 806.00 €
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
Date: 106
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 24,41 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour un bronze sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de haut relief et bien venu à la frappe. Revers de toute beauté où tous les détails sont visibles. Très belle patine vert olive foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite, drapée sur l’épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Nervæ Traiano Augustus Germanicus Dacicus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul quintum Pater 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 : Annona (l’Annone) drapée à gauche, portant deux épis de blé au-dessus d’un modius de la main droite, une corne d’abondance de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, une poupe de navire enguirlandée.
Reverse translation : “Senatus Populus Que Romanus Optimo Principi”, (Le Sénat et le Peuple Romain au meilleur des Princes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 2. Le drapé se voit aussi sur l’arrière de l’épaule.
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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