v38_0551 - TRAJANUS As
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : As
Date: 98
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,22 g.
Officine: 2e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine vert olive foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVA TRAIA-N AVG GERM P M.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Pontifex Maximus”, (L’empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique grand pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT - COS II PP/ S|C.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) volant à gauche, les ailes déployées, tenant de la main gauche un sceptre et de la main droite un bouclier inscrit SP/QR.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate Consul iterum Pater Patriæ/ Senatus Populus/ Que Romanus”, (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la deuxième fois père de la patrie/ le Sénat et le Peuple romain).
Commentary
Émission inaugurale de Trajan, fabriquée après la prise du deuxième consulat le 1er janvier 98.
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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