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Trajan (AD 98-117). Æ "mines" quadrans (18mm, 3.62 gm, 6h). Rome, AD 98-102. IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate head of Trajan right / DARDANICI, Pax standing facing, head left, holding olive branch. RIC 703. Cf. Simic & Vasic 6. Light smoothing in fields. Brown patina. Very rare! Extremely Fine.A curious feature of the Trajanic and Hadrianic period is a special issue of bronze quadrantes struck in the names of the imperial mines in the provinces of Noricum, Dalmatia, Pannonia, and Moesia (Dardania). These mines supplied metal for the mint at Rome, and possibly produced the "mines" coinage for local circulation or as donatives. Another theory suggests the mines coins were struck at Rome itself, and served some unidentified function, much as the contemporary 'nome' coinage struck at Alexandria in Egypt. Whatever the circumstances, these scarce pieces saw limited use, and except for one rare type struck by Marcus Aurelius, were not issued during any other period.

Estimate: 600.00-900.00 USD