bpv_148310 - TRAJANUS Tridrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 375.00 €
Type : Tridrachme
Date: 111
Mint name / Town : Tyr, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 700 ‰
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,87 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large. Très beau portrait. Faiblesse de frappe sur la légende au droit et sur l’Arabie au revers. Jolie patine superficielle avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
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.
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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