v13_0252 - TRAJANUS Sesterce
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 304.90 €
Estimate : 609.80 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 304.90 €
Estimate : 609.80 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce
Date: 113-117
Mint name / Town : Salamine, Chypre
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 25,22 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire pour ce type de monnayage. Flan légèrement fendu. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé de Trajan à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse legend : AUTOK KAIS NER TRAIANw ARISTw SEB GERM DAK (Autokrator Kaisar Nerua Traiano Aristw Sebasto Germanikw Dasikow).
Obverse translation : (À l’empereur césar Nerva Trajan le meilleur des princes auguste germanique, dacique).
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus Salaminios (Jupiter de Salamine de Chypre) debout de face, vêtu du chiton et de l’himation, tenant de la main droite une phiale et de la main gauche s’appuyant sur un sceptre court ; sur la main gauche, un petit aigle tourné à droite, les ailes repliées tournant la tête à gauche.
Reverse legend : DHMARC EX UPA TO S// KOINON KUPRIwN (Dhmarsikos Exousisas Upatos S/ Koinon Kupriwn).
Reverse translation : (Puissance tribunitienne consul pour la sixième fois/ la Communauté de Chypre).
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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