v18_0332 - TRAJANUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
Date: 105
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 23,59 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Emission: 11e
Coments on the condition:
Usure très importante, mais exemplaire parfaitement identifiable. Beau portrait. Joli revers architecturalement important. Patine du Tibre
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vieille collection du XIXe siècle du Sud de la France
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO OPTIMO 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 Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Optimo Augusti Germanico Dacico Pontifici Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consuli 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// SC.
Reverse description : Pont au-dessus d’une rivière à deux arches incurvées à deux étages ; au milieu des flots, un bateau.
Reverse translation : “Senatus Populus Que Romanus Optimo Principi”, (le Sénat et le Peuple romain au meilleur des Princes).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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