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Trajan AR Denarius. Rome, circa AD 112-114. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, female figure (personification of Via Traiana) reclining left, head turned back, resting on rock and holding wheel and branch; VIA TRAIANA in exergue. RIC II 266; BMCRE 487; Woytek 398b; RSC 648. 2.69g, 19mm, 7h.
Very Fine; some delamination to obv.; pleasant toning.
From the collection of Z.P., Austria.
Built by Trajan at his own expense and commemorated with an arch at its beginning in Beneventum, as well as on his coinage, the Via Traiana was a quicker route for travellers from Rome to Brundisium on the coast. At 205 miles, despite being two miles longer than the Via Appia, the Via Traiana was a much less arduous and therefore faster option than the original Republican road because it traversed a significantly flatter route to the north. Strabo, in his Geography (6.3.7), indicates that the route of the Via Traiana, even though in his day little more than a mule track, saved the traveller a whole day's journeying.
Very Fine; some delamination to obv.; pleasant toning.
From the collection of Z.P., Austria.
Built by Trajan at his own expense and commemorated with an arch at its beginning in Beneventum, as well as on his coinage, the Via Traiana was a quicker route for travellers from Rome to Brundisium on the coast. At 205 miles, despite being two miles longer than the Via Appia, the Via Traiana was a much less arduous and therefore faster option than the original Republican road because it traversed a significantly flatter route to the north. Strabo, in his Geography (6.3.7), indicates that the route of the Via Traiana, even though in his day little more than a mule track, saved the traveller a whole day's journeying.