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Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 26.68 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 112/3-114. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate head right / S P Q R OPTI MO PRINCIPI, S C across field, Trajan's column surmounted by statue of Trajan, holding patera and scepter; two eagles at base; relief in base and pediment. RIC 601; Woytek 472a (same dies); Banti 296; BMCRE 971 note; BN 761. Even brown surfaces with some areas of red, minor edge chip. Good VF. Rare.
From the DMS Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk, August 2008. Ex Berk BBS 124 (3 January 2002), lot 669.
Trajan excelled in civilian government and understood the importance of public works. One of his most famous was the column bearing his name, which still stands today. His conquest of Dacia in AD 102-105 can be followed on the spiral reliefs of Trajan’s Column, and brought an enormous windfall of plunder into the Roman economy, financing construction of his enormous new Forum, for which the column served as a centerpiece. This sestertius was struck to celebrate completion of the column, and the relief is readily apparent. Trajan’s mortal remains were later entombed under its base.
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