v34_0485 - TRAJANUS Dupondius, (MB, Æ 28)
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 28)
Date: 107
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,89 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Buste exceptionnel avec un portrait particulier. Joli revers de style fin. Très belle patine vert olive profond, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P .
Obverse description : Grand buste héroïque, radié de Trajan à droite, avec pan de paludamentum et égide sur l’épaule gauche (O5).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Augusti Germanico Dacico Pontifici Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consuli quinto 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 : Trophée dace formé de boucliers ovales et ronds, de casques, d'une tunique et de hastes transversales ; deux boucliers au pied du trophée.
Reverse translation : "Senatus Populus Que Romanus Optimo Principi", (Le Sénat et le Peuple romain au meilleur des Princes).
Commentary
Rubans peu visibles. Buste héroïque de qualité exceptionnelle avec une égide très importante avec la tête de Méduse vue de profil. Le traitement du buste est tout à fait particulier et ne se rencontre normalement pas dans le monnayage de bronze.
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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