brm_170483 - TRAJANUS Dupondius
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 195.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Dupondius
Date: 116
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 14,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait, mais faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Faiblesse de frappe au revers sur Trajan. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P .
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé de Trajan à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Optimo Augusti Germanico Dacico Parthico Pontifici Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consule sextum Patri Patriæ", (À l'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique, dacique parthique grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la sixième fois père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SENATVS PO-PVLVS QVE - ROMANVS// S. C À L’EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Trajan debout de face, vêtu militairement, entre deux trophées parthes.
Reverse translation : “Senatus Populus Que Romanus”, (le Sénat et le Peuple romain).
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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