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Auction 11 12 January 2014
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Trajan. 98-117 AD. Sestertius, 27.32g (7h). Rome, c. 104-11 AD. Obv: IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P Bust laureate right, fold of cloak on front shoulder and behind neck. Rx: S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI S C Trajan's Danube bridge, depicted as a single arching span between entrance and exit gates topped by statues; a boat in the river below. MIR 314bD (7 spec.), pl. 63 (two illustrated, ours is from the same dies as the second of them). BM 851. Paris 315. Cohen 542 (8 Fr.). RIC 569. Exceptional iconic sestertius rarely seen in this quality. Choice EF
Ex Gemini II, 10 January 2005, lot 346; this coin published in Collecting World Coins, Winter 2005/2006, Cover and p. 19
Although other identifications have continued to be advanced in both academic and trade literature, Strack's arguments for the traditional identification of this bridge type on Trajan's bronze coins as representing Trajan's Danube bridge were virtually conclusive and should really have ended the debate. See C. Clay's review of Woytek's book on Trajan in Numismatic Chronicle 172, 2012, pp. 357-8
Ex Gemini II, 10 January 2005, lot 346; this coin published in Collecting World Coins, Winter 2005/2006, Cover and p. 19
Although other identifications have continued to be advanced in both academic and trade literature, Strack's arguments for the traditional identification of this bridge type on Trajan's bronze coins as representing Trajan's Danube bridge were virtually conclusive and should really have ended the debate. See C. Clay's review of Woytek's book on Trajan in Numismatic Chronicle 172, 2012, pp. 357-8