brm_305756 - TRAJANUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 280.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: janvier - février
Date: 98
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,47 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Trajan. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP NERVA CAES TRAI-AN AVG GERM P M.
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Nerva Cæsar Traianus Augustus Germanicus Pontifex Maximus”, (L’empereur Nerva césar Trajan auguste germaniqueand pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P. M. TR. P. COS. II - P P.
Reverse description : Abundantia (l’Abondance) drapée assise à gauche sur une chaise curule, formée de deux cornes d’abondance, tenant un bâton de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul iterum Pater Patriæ”, (grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la deuxième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Le portrait de Trajan n’est pas du tout ressemblant et rappelle plutôt celui de son prédécesseur, Nerva. Buste allongé avec un minuscule pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule gauche. Rubans de type 3. C’est l’une des dernières émissions taillées au 1/92 L. avant le retour au 1/96 L. Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié pour cette variante de buste. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés.
The portrait of Trajan is not at all a likeness and is more reminiscent of that of his predecessor, Nerva. Reclining bust with a tiny piece of paludamentum on the left shoulder. Type 3 ribbons. This is one of the last issues cut at 1/92 L. before the return to 1/96 L. Seems to be completely unpublished and not listed for this bust variant. Missing from all consulted works
The portrait of Trajan is not at all a likeness and is more reminiscent of that of his predecessor, Nerva. Reclining bust with a tiny piece of paludamentum on the left shoulder. Type 3 ribbons. This is one of the last issues cut at 1/92 L. before the return to 1/96 L. Seems to be completely unpublished and not listed for this bust variant. Missing from all consulted works
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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