RIC II Trajan 450
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC II Trajan 450. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Trajan. Mint: Rome. Source: American Numismatic Society, Online Coins of the Roman Empire.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Bronze
- Denomination
- Sestertius
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Rome
- Authority
- Trajan
Design
- Obverse
- Bust of Trajan, laureate, right (sometimes with aegis)
- Reverse
- Trajan, togate, seated left on platform on right, on lower platform in front of him, an officer is inscribing a tessera to give to citizen on left, holding out fold of toga to receive it; in the background, a tripod and Liberalitas, standing left, holding up an abacus
- Obverse legend
- IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM DACICVS P M
- Reverse legend
- COS V CONGIAR SECVND S C
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.2.tr.450
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