RIC II Trajan 489 (sestertius)
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC II Trajan 489 (sestertius). 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, draped on left shoulder, right
- Reverse
- Roma, helmeted, in military dress, seated left on cuirass, holding Victory in extended right hand and vertical spear in left; left foot is on head of Dacian, right on helmet; by cuirass, three shields
- Obverse legend
- IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P
- Reverse legend
- S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI S C
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.2.tr.489_sestertius
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