v29_0172 - TRAJANUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
Date: 116
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 27,09 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré des deux côtés. Minuscule échancrure de métal à 2 heures au droit. Très beau portrait mature de Trajan. Faiblesse de frappe sur la légende au revers. Jolie patine vert olive foncé lissée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P .
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé de Trajan à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Optimo Augusti Germanico Dacico Parthico Pontifici Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consuli sexto Patri Patriæ”, (À l'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique, dacique, parthique grand pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la sixième fois père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDEN[TIA] - AVGVSTI S. P. Q. R./ S|C.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) drapée debout à gauche, la main droite pointant au-dessus d’un globe terrestre et un sceptre long de la main gauche, le coude appuyé sur une colonne.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Augusti Senatus Populus Que Romanus”, (La Providence de l’auguste le Sénat et le Peuple romain).
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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