RIC II Trajan 515 (sestertius)
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC II Trajan 515 (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
- Salus, draped, seated left on throne, with patera in extended right hand feeding snake coiled up round lighted altar; left arm on arm of throne
- 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.515_sestertius
Research required
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