v24_0324 - TRAJANUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 450.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 585.00 €
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 450.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 585.00 €
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
Date: 107
Mint name / Town : Rome, Decennalia
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 28,31 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier avec un défaut de métal à six heures au revers. Beau portrait. Revers de toute beauté malgré une usure régulière. Sans patine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P.
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Trajan à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Caesari Nervæ Traiano Augusti Germanico Dacico Pontifico Maximo Tribuniciæ Potestate Consule quintum Patri Patriæ", (À l'empereur césar Nerva Trajan auguste germanique dacique grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la cinquième fois père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI/ S|C.
Reverse description : Temple octastyle d’Honos surmonté d’un fronton triangulaire décoré de cinq statues, surmonté de cinq statues et d’acrotères ; le tout posé sur un degré.
Reverse translation : "Senatus Populusque Romanus Optimo Principi", (Le Sénat et le Peuple Romain, au meilleur des Princes).
Commentary
Poids léger. La qualité de gravure du portrait est exceptionnelle et avec la largeur du flan donne un aspect de “médaillon” à ce sesterce, au revers en particulier pour le temple, finement décoré.
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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