brm_257094 - TRAJANUS As
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 195.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : As
Date: 98
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,33 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Très beau portrait avec une égide bien visible. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine noire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVA TRAI-AN AVG GERM P M.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite avec l’égide (O*4).
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
Portrait tout à fait inhabituel avec une très belle égide, constituée du masque de Gorgone et de serpents. Émission inaugurale de Trajan, fabriquée après la prise du deuxième consulat le 1er janvier 98. Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés avec cette variante de buste. C’est le deuxième exemplaire signalé après celui de MONNAIES 29, n° 179.
A highly unusual portrait with a beautiful aegis, consisting of a Gorgon mask and serpents. Trajan's inaugural issue, made after the taking of the second consulate on January 1, 98. It appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. This bust variant is missing from all consulted works. This is the second example reported after that of MONNAIES 29, no. 179.
A highly unusual portrait with a beautiful aegis, consisting of a Gorgon mask and serpents. Trajan's inaugural issue, made after the taking of the second consulate on January 1, 98. It appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. This bust variant is missing from all consulted works. This is the second example reported after that of MONNAIES 29, no. 179.
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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