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Trajan AR Denarius. Rome, AD 112-114. IMP TRAIANVS AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / DIVVS PATER TRAIAN, Trajan Pater, bare-headed and togate, seated left on curule chair with feet on stool, holding patera in extended right hand and sceptre in left. RIC 252; BMCRE 500; RSC 140. 3.33g, 19mm, 6h.
Near Mint State; stunning iridescent cabinet tone.
Acquired from Leu Numismatik AG.
Marcus Ulpius Traianus the elder, father of the future emperor Trajan, appears to have already been a member of the senate during the reign of Claudius (K. Strobel, Kaiser Traian, 2010) and may have been a legion commander prior to AD 67 under Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo; he is recorded as the commander of Legio X Fretensis during the first Jewish-Roman war in AD 67/8. Awarded a governorship and suffect consulship in AD 72 by Vespasian in recognition of his service, it is to this office that the reverse of this coin alludes. Traianus continued to serve with distinction as governor of Cappadocia and Galatia, Syria, Roman Asia and Hispania Baetica. Sadly, the surviving evidence points to Traianus having died before AD 98, thus not living long enough to see his son invested with the purple and become what both contemporaries and later historians would call the 'best' Roman emperor.
Near Mint State; stunning iridescent cabinet tone.
Acquired from Leu Numismatik AG.
Marcus Ulpius Traianus the elder, father of the future emperor Trajan, appears to have already been a member of the senate during the reign of Claudius (K. Strobel, Kaiser Traian, 2010) and may have been a legion commander prior to AD 67 under Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo; he is recorded as the commander of Legio X Fretensis during the first Jewish-Roman war in AD 67/8. Awarded a governorship and suffect consulship in AD 72 by Vespasian in recognition of his service, it is to this office that the reverse of this coin alludes. Traianus continued to serve with distinction as governor of Cappadocia and Galatia, Syria, Roman Asia and Hispania Baetica. Sadly, the surviving evidence points to Traianus having died before AD 98, thus not living long enough to see his son invested with the purple and become what both contemporaries and later historians would call the 'best' Roman emperor.