v08_0202 - TRAJANUS Dupondius, (MB, Æ 26)
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
unsold lot
Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 26)
Date: 105
Mint name / Town : Rome, Decennalia
Metal : bronze or copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 14,22 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait avec une patine verte et marron / Revers de style très fin, mais flan irrégulier et patine légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS [V P P].
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l'épaule gauche (O2).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Traiano Augusti Germanico Dacico Pontifico Maximo Tribunitiæ Potestate Consuli quintus Patri Patriæ) (À l'empereur 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) debout à gauche, tenant une branche d'olivier de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche, le pied droit posé sur un dace allongé au sol.
Reverse translation : "Senatus Populusque Romanus Optimo Principi" (le Sénat et le Peuple Romain au meilleur des princes).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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