Live auction - brm_386563 - TRAJANUS Sesterce
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| Estimate : | 750 € |
| Price : | 480 € |
| Maximum bid : | 480 € |
| End of the sale : | 19 April 2016 14:33:18 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Sesterce
Date: 116
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 24,72 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré à l’usure importante, parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Très beau buste de Trajan, présenté héroïquement. Patine marron foncé
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 de Trajan à droite avec l’égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (O*4).
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Optimo Augusti Germanico Dacico Parthico Pontifici Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consule sextum 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 : ARME-NIA ET MESOPOTA[MIA IN POTESTATEM P R REDACTAE]/ S|C.
Reverse description : Trajan debout de face, tourné à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant le parazonium de la main droite et une haste de la main gauche entre l’Euphrate et le Tigre allongés de chaque côté, tenant chacun un roseau et appuyé sur une urne ; devant Trajan, l’Arménie assise sur le sol.
Reverse translation : “Armenia et Mesopotamia in Potestatem Populus Romanus Redactæ”, (L’Arménie et la Mésopotamie soumises au pouvoir du peuple romain).
Commentary
Grand buste héroïque avec la poitrine visible et la grande égide sur l’épaule gauche.
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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