v21_2465 - TRAJANUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 34)
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 950.00 €
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 950.00 €
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 34)
Date: 107
Mint name / Town : Rome, Decennalia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 28,31 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large et complet des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Revers historiquement important. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Serge Boutin (1971)
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 Tribuniciæ Potestate Consule quintum 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 : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée debout à droite, les ailes déployées, inscrivant VIC/DAC en deux lignes sur un bouclier placé sur un palmier.
Reverse translation : "Senatus Populusque Romanus Optimo Principi", (Le Sénat et le Peuple Romain, au meilleur des Princes).
Commentary
La qualité de gravure du portrait est exceptionnelle et avec la largeur du flan donne un aspect de “médaillon” à ce sesterce.
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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