v21_2469 - TRAJANUS Dupondius, (MB, Æ 26)
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 26)
Date: 107
Mint name / Town : Rome, Decennalia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,50 g.
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique portrait d’un très joli style. Joli revers. Jolie patine vert émail marbrée de rouge au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O2).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Caesari Nervæ Traiano Augusti Germanico Dacico Pontifico Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consule quintum Patri Patriæ", (À l'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique dacique grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la cinquième fois père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI/ S|C.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une branche d’olivier de la main droite et une corne d’abondance, le pied droit posé sur la tête d’un Dace.
Reverse translation : "Senatus Populusque Romanus Optimo Principi", (Le Sénat et le Peuple Romain, au meilleur des Princes).
Commentary
La qualité de gravure du portrait est extraordinaire sur ce dupondius, œuvre d’un graveur d’exception.
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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