v25_0256 - TRAJANUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 36)
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 36)
Date: 116
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 35,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 21,97 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure très importante, mais parfaitement identifiable et lisible. Flan éclaté à 5 heures. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Sans patine
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 : R-EX PARTHIS - DATVS// S. C.
Reverse description : Trajan assis à gauche sur une chaise curule sur une estrade, vêtu militairement, accompagné par un soldat (préfet du prétoire), plaçant une couronne sur la tête du roi Parthamaspates qui se tient devant l’estrade face à la Parthie, agenouillée, tendant la main.
Reverse translation : “Rex Parthis Datus”, (Roi donné aux Parthes).
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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