bpv_251090 - TRAJANUS Hemidrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 95.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 95.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: 100
Mint name / Town : Cyrène, Cyrénaïque
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 700 ‰
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,37 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Très joli revers. Patine gris foncé, légèrement tachée au revers
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Trajan à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT KAIS NER TRAIANOS SEB GERM (Autokrator Kaisar Nerua Traianos Sebastos Germanikos)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête de Zeus-Ammon cornue à droite.
Reverse legend : DHM EX - UPAT G (Dhmarcikhs Exousias Upatos G)
Reverse translation : (Puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la deuxième fois).
Commentary
Ce type était précédemment atribué à l’atelier de Césarée de Cappadoce, suivi par les ouvrages postérieurs au Sydenham. W. Metcalf réattribue cette série à la Cyrénaïque pour l’atelier de Cyrène, certainement à cause de la tête de Zeus Ammon au revers.
This type was previously attributed to the Caesarea of Cappadocia workshop, followed by works after the Sydenham. W. Metcalf reattributes this series to Cyrenaica for the Cyrene workshop, probably because of the head of Zeus Ammon on the reverse.
This type was previously attributed to the Caesarea of Cappadocia workshop, followed by works after the Sydenham. W. Metcalf reattributes this series to Cyrenaica for the Cyrene workshop, probably because of the head of Zeus Ammon on the reverse.
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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