brm_351001 - TRAJANUS Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 113
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 26,76 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Trajan. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron foncé légèrement granuleuse
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
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 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/ S|C// ARAB ADQ.
Reverse description : Arabia (l’Arabie) drapée debout de face, tenant une branche de la main droite et une canne de la main gauche ; un dromadaire à ses pieds à gauche.
Reverse translation : "Senatus Populusque Romanus Optimo Principi/ Arabia Adquisita", (Le Sénat et le Peuple Romain, au meilleur des Princes/ l’Arabie conquise).
Commentary
La représentation des camélidés est relativement rare dans le monnayage impérial. Un dromadaire ornait déjà le monnayage de Marcus Aemilius Scaurus et Publius Plautius en 58 avant J.-C. avec le roi nabatéen Aretas III qui se soumit à l’autorité romaine (RCV. 378). Sur notre exemplaire, c’est la personnification de la Province qui est représentée.
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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