bpv_598715 - TRAJANUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 114
Mint name / Town : Tyr, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 14,39 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré des deux côtés. Jolis portraits, notamment de Melqart. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Prieur 1519 (1 ex.)
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite posée sur un aigle debout à droite ; dans le champ à droite, une massue posée en oblique.
Obverse legend : AUTOKR KAIS NER TRAIANOS SEB GERM DAK, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Neruao Traianos Sebastos Germanikos Dakikos)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique dacique).
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête laurée de Melqart (Hercule) à droite, la léonté nouée sur le cou.
Reverse legend : DHMARC. .EX - IH UPAT V, (Dhmarcikhs Exousias IZ Upatos e)
Reverse translation : (Dix-septième puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la sixième fois).
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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