brm_527370 - TRAJANUS Aureus
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Price : 1 200.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 1 200.00 €
Type : Aureus
Date: 115
Mint name / Town : Rome, Victoire Parthique
Metal : gold
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,67 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan centré à l’usure très importante, lisible et identifiable
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES NER TRAIAN OPTIMO [AVG GERM DAC].
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Trajan à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : "Imperatori Cæsari Nervæ Traiano Optimo Augusto Germanico Dacico" , (À l'empereur César Nerva Trajan, le meilleur germanique dacique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P COS- VI P P S P Q R// SALVS AVG.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé drapée assise à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et nourrissant un serpent enroulé autour d’un autel, le bras droit appuyé sur le dos du siège.
Reverse translation : Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul Sextum Pater Patriæ Senatus Populusque Romanus Salus Augusti" (Grand pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la sixième fois, père de la patrie au nom du Sénat et du Peuple romain, la Santé de l’auguste)).
Commentary
Poids léger. Cet aureus est frappé au moment des Vicennalia (20e anniversaire de règne de Trajan) au début de la campagne parthique avec des vœux liés à la santé de Trajan. Ce type de buste semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
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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