bpv_584223 - TRAJANUS Tridrachme
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Type : Tridrachme
Date: 111
Mint name / Town : Bostra, Arabie
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 700 ‰
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,22 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale. Beau buste de Trajan. Frappe un peu faible au revers sur une partie de la légende. Patine de collection ancienne
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l'épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse legend : AUTOKR KAIS NER TRAIANOS SEB GERM DAK, (Autokrator Kaisaros Neruas Traionos Sebastos Germanikos Dakikos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique dacique).
Reverse
Reverse description : L'Arabie debout à gauche, drapée, tenant de la main droite, une branche de laurier et un objet longiforme ; derrière elle à gauche, un dromadaire.
Reverse legend : DHMARC [EC UPAT] E (Dhmarcikhs Exousias Upatos E)
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la cinquième fois).
Commentary
Pour W. E. Metcalf, ce type a été frappé entre 106 et 111 dans l’atelier de Bostra, capitale de la nouvelle province d’Arabie. Pour ce type, les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage ont recensé 70 exemplaires avec unpoids moyen de 10,82 g.
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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