Roman Imperial coin – HCR21894

Obverse

Inscription:

[I]MP [CAE]S [NER]VAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P [P]

Design:

Bust of Trajan, laureate, with aegis on left shoulder, right

Reverse

Inscription:

S P Q R OP[TIMO P]RINCIPI S C

Design:

Danuvius, naked to waist, cloak floating behind and above, kneeling left, pressing right knee onto Dacia, seated right on ground and grasping the right arm of Danuvius with left hand; Danuvius grips the throat of Dacia with right hand and holds a reed in left

Information

Period

Roman Imperial

Dynasty

Nerva-Antonine

Reign

Trajan

Person

Trajan, 98 – 117 (ruler/authority)

Mint

Rome

Denomination

Sestertius

Material

orichalcum

Technique

struck

Dating

AD 104 – 107 (according to Woytek, MIR 14)

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

22.12

Axis

Diameter (mm)

33.8

Acquisition method

bequest

Acquisition collection reference

Roman Imperial AE I 36

Acquisition date

1755

Source

Richard Rawlinson

Acquisition credit

Bequeathed by Richard Rawlinson, 1755.

Reference

RIC II (first edition) : 558

Reference

Woytek MIR 14 (Trajan) : 199c

This specimen

Yes

Reference

OCRE : http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.558

Contributors to this coin record

friday-volunteer, cgallacher, mspencer-brown