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Trajan (AD 98-117). AE sestertius (34mm, 27.83 gm, 7h). Choice VF 5/5 - 3/5. Rome, AD 107-110. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate head of Trajan right, slight drapery on far shoulder / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, arched, two-tiered bridge across river (Danube or Tiber?); monumental arches at each end, the tops surmounted by statuary, boat sailing left on waves below; S C in exergue. RIC II 569. BMCRE 849. Cohen 582. Hill 209. Woytek 314b. RCTV 3207.
From the Rockport Collection. Privately purchased from Heritage Auctions in the 1980s. Sold with original custom holder listing older catalog references.
Trajan's massive military campaign against Dacia involved construction of a celebrated bridge across the Danube in AD 104. The structure was designed by the famous architect Apollodorus of Damascus and carried out in record time by legionary engineers and workmen. It can be clearly seen on Trajan's Column; however, the appearance of the bridge differs markedly from the one depicted here. Hill, in "The Monuments of Ancient Rome as Coin Types," pages 105-106, posits that Trajan's sestertius depicts the Pons Sublicius across the Tiber in Rome. One of the city's oldest bridges, it was frequently damaged by floods and Trajan may have undertaken a renovation and reconstruction around this time, although none is officially recorded. It is also not inconceivable that the coin is intended to evoke both the Danube bridge and Trajan's putative rebuilding of the Pons Sublicius.
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Trajan (AD 98-117). AE sestertius (34mm, 27.83 gm, 7h). Choice VF 5/5 - 3/5. Rome, AD 107-110. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate head of Trajan right, slight drapery on far shoulder / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, arched, two-tiered bridge across river (Danube or Tiber?); monumental arches at each end, the tops surmounted by statuary, boat sailing left on waves below; S C in exergue. RIC II 569. BMCRE 849. Cohen 582. Hill 209. Woytek 314b. RCTV 3207.
From the Rockport Collection. Privately purchased from Heritage Auctions in the 1980s. Sold with original custom holder listing older catalog references.
Trajan's massive military campaign against Dacia involved construction of a celebrated bridge across the Danube in AD 104. The structure was designed by the famous architect Apollodorus of Damascus and carried out in record time by legionary engineers and workmen. It can be clearly seen on Trajan's Column; however, the appearance of the bridge differs markedly from the one depicted here. Hill, in "The Monuments of Ancient Rome as Coin Types," pages 105-106, posits that Trajan's sestertius depicts the Pons Sublicius across the Tiber in Rome. One of the city's oldest bridges, it was frequently damaged by floods and Trajan may have undertaken a renovation and reconstruction around this time, although none is officially recorded. It is also not inconceivable that the coin is intended to evoke both the Danube bridge and Trajan's putative rebuilding of the Pons Sublicius.
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HID02906262019
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