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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 31 July 2018 14:42:16 |
Type : Denier
Date: 109
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,66 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, bien centré, éclaté à 2h et à 3h. Patine grise. Beau buste de l’empereur Trajan ainsi qu’un joli revers avec un petit dromadaire bien visible
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P.
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l'épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Traiano Augusto Germanico Dacico Pontifici Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate”, (À l’empereur Trajan auguste germanique dacique grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC.
Reverse description : Arabia (l’Arabie) drapée debout de face, tenant une branche de la main droite et de la canne de la main gauche ; un dromadaire à ses pieds à gauche.
Reverse translation : "Consul quintum Pater Patriae Senatus Populus que Romanus Optimo Principi", (Consul pour la cinquième fois, père de la patrie, le Sénat du peuple Romain, au meilleur des Princes).
Commentary
La représentation des camélidés est relativement rare dans le monnayage impérial. Un dromadaire ornait déjà le monnayage de Marcus Aemilius Scaurus et Publius Plautius en 58 avant J.-C. avec le roi nabatéen Aretas III qui se soumit à l’autorité romaine (RCV. 378). Sur notre exemplaire, c’est la personnification de la Province qui est représentée.
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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