Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33.5mm, 24.80 g, 6h). Rome mint. Group 16, AD 114-116.

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Roman Imperial, Bronze

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Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33.5mm, 24.80 g, 6h). Rome mint. Group 16, AD 114-116. Laureate and draped bust right / IMPERATOR VIIII/ S C, Trajan seated right on high platform on left, raising hand haranguing soldiers: by him stand two officers, to right on the ground stands an officer right, holding spear addressing six soldiers, one of them holding a horse by the bridle; three signa in background. RIC II 658; Woytek 549v; Banti 80. Green patina, some smoothing and tooling, a couple of areas of active bronze disease. EF.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 213 (1 July 2009), lot 421.

Trajan extended the Empire's borders to their greatest limit. After two major campaigns (AD 101-103 and 105-106), he incorporated Dacia as a Roman province. In AD 114, in consequence of the installation of a Parthian puppet on the throne of Armenia, Trajan annexed the area as another Roman province and then extended operations into Mesopotamia. The reverse of this coin depicts Trajan's acclamation by the troops as imperator for the eighth time, which occurred with the fall of the city of Singara in AD 115 during the campaigns on the eastern frontier.

Closing Date and Time: 12 February 2020 at 12:01:20 ET.

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