brm_391427 - TRAJANUS Semis, monnaie des mines
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 750.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Semis, monnaie des mines
Date: 102-103
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain, Dacie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,17 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier bien centré. Très belle tête de Trajan. Joli revers de style fin. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GER DAC.
Obverse description : Tête lauré de Trajan à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus”, (L'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique dacique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : METALLI VLPIANI.
Reverse description : Æquitas (l’Équité) ou Moneta (la Monnaie) debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Metalli Ulpiani”, (des mines ulpiennes).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Cette monnaie qui semble anodine est en fait l’une des plus rares du règne de Trajan.
Very light weight. This seemingly innocuous coin is in fact one of the rarest from Trajan's reign.
Very light weight. This seemingly innocuous coin is in fact one of the rarest from Trajan's reign.
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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