bpv_140546 - TRAJANUS Didrachme
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Didrachme
Date: 100
Mint name / Town : Tyr, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,76 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, large et irrégulier. Beau portrait. Exemplaire à l’usure régulière recouvert d’une patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire est le 1484_029 de la base TSP
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUTOKR KAIS NER TRAIANOS SEB GERM (Autokrator Kaisar Nerua Traianos Sebastos Germanikos)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique dacique).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche, une palme sur l’épaule ; dans le champ à gauche, une massue posée verticalement.
Reverse legend : DHMARC/ EX - UPAT G (Dhmarcikhs Exousias Upatos G)
Reverse translation : (Puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la troisième fois).
Commentary
Dénomination inhabituelle pour Tyr. Tyr est la principale ville de Phénicie. Le monnayage pour Trajan commença en 98, puis connut une interruption de cinq ans et reprit avec les émissions liées au cinquième consulat (103) avec un style proche des émissions d’Antioche. Michel Prieur fait remarquer qu’il existe une liaison de coins entre les différents types de revers. Il émet l’idée que l’atelier de Tyr aurait frappé pour l’ensemble de la région. Les pièces de l’atelier d’Antioche sont particulièrement rares (PR. 151-153) alors que les émissions pour Tyr sont abondantes (PR. 1477-1522).
Unusual denomination for Tyre. Tyre is the main city of Phoenicia. Coinage for Trajan began in 98, then experienced a five-year interruption and resumed with the issues related to the fifth consulate (103) with a style close to the issues of Antioch. Michel Prieur notes that there is a die link between the different types of reverses. He suggests that the Tyre mint would have struck for the entire region. Coins from the Antioch mint are particularly rare (PR. 151-153) while issues for Tyre are abundant (PR. 1477-1522)
Unusual denomination for Tyre. Tyre is the main city of Phoenicia. Coinage for Trajan began in 98, then experienced a five-year interruption and resumed with the issues related to the fifth consulate (103) with a style close to the issues of Antioch. Michel Prieur notes that there is a die link between the different types of reverses. He suggests that the Tyre mint would have struck for the entire region. Coins from the Antioch mint are particularly rare (PR. 151-153) while issues for Tyre are abundant (PR. 1477-1522)
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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